Exceptional long?term contract opportunity! A leading financial services organization is seeking an OpenShift Engineer to support high?impact initiatives in Charlotte, NC; Phoenix, AZ; Chandler, AZ; or Irving, TX (Hybrid).
Join a team of top?tier technologists at one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions. This long?term engagement offers a competitive benefits package and the chance to work for a company with more than 150 years of history that continues to innovate in the digital era. If you're looking to contribute to meaningful, modern technology solutions at a household?name organization that truly prioritizes customer success and financial well?being, this is an opportunity worth exploring. Apply today.
Contract Duration: 12 Months
We are seeking a highly experienced OpenShift Engineer to guide the operational reliability, governance, and performance of our Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. This role leads operational strategy, incident readiness, stability engineering, automation initiatives, and day to day operations oversight. You will drive operational excellence, ensure compliance, reduce toil, and provide leadership across teams that support mission critical platforms.
In this role, you will:
- Operational Leadership & Governance: support the operational health, lifecycle, and governance of Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. Drive standards, procedures, and operational readiness across all environments.
- Incident Management: support major incidents, coordinate cross team response, ensure timely restoration, manage communication, and drive root-cause and permanent corrective action.
- Reliability & Stability Improvements: works to enhance resilience, reduce platform incidents, eliminate recurring issues, and increase automation maturity.
- Operational Automation & Toil Reduction: Direct automation strategy for run operations, leveraging Python, GitOps, AI-assisted tooling, or self service workflows to reduce manual effort.
- OpenShift Platform Readiness: supports OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities, including new cluster builds, configuration, onboarding, upgrades, and cluster decommissioning, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance across environments.
- Cross Team Operational Enablement: support engineering, security, and development teams to adopt consistent operational patterns, guardrails, and readiness practices.
- Compliance & Controls: Ensure adherence to regulatory, security, and audit requirements; maintain strong operational hygiene and documentation.
- Mentorship & Team Development: Guide other team members, develop skill maturity, and strengthen operational best practices across the organization.
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ year's experience in Systems Operations, Cloud Operations, SRE, or related operational roles
- 3+ years in Kubernetes/OpenShift platform operations
- 2+ years Linux systems operations experience
- Experience in operational teams or platform operations functions
- Strong record of operational automation and incident leadership
Desired Qualifications:
- Expertise in OpenShift platform management, ACM, Git/GitOps
- Strong experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus)
- Proven ability to drive operational strategy, continuous improvement, and large-scale stability initiatives
- Excellent analytical and cross-team communication skills
Job Expectations:
- Expected to lead escalations and support major incidents
- Participation in on-call support
- Hybrid work required from one of the posted locations
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