*Remote Contract Opportunity*
Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer position! This is a 12 month contract opportunity and can be remote in the United States (EST working hours). This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.
Overview
A leading financial services organization is seeking an experienced OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to join a team responsible for managing and maintaining the firms enterprise container platform. This individual will bring expert-level knowledge of the OpenShift/Kubernetes ecosystem and best practices for cluster deployments. A key aspect of this role involves exploring emerging technologies and providing recommendations on how to effectively integrate them. The ideal candidate will have strong technical credentials and hands-on experience in containers networking storage compute and cloud infrastructure design and implementation along with excellent communication skills.
What Youll Be Doing:
- Automate the deployment configuration and maintenance of OpenShift clusters using custom CI/CD pipelines.
- Review new cluster configurations and pipelines to ensure effective and non-disruptive outcomes.
- Recommend and implement system upgrades and enhancements for optimal performance.
- Lead infrastructure automation efforts and continuous deployment in a private virtualized environment.
- Document newly deployed services and infrastructure; maintain and update existing documentation to reflect best practices.
- Collaborate with technology leadership senior engineers and support teams to implement scalable technical solutions.
- Contribute to infrastructure architecture design standards and policies.
- Translate business and functional requirements into structured technical solutions.
- Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers technicians and integrators.
- Stay current with banking technologies development environments and financial services trends.
- Coordinate with vendors and manage support tickets when needed.
- Promote and follow industry standards and best practices.
What Youll Need to Have:
- A combined minimum of 8 years of higher education and/or professional experience.
- Strong understanding of system development infrastructure lifecycle systems design and IT Service Management principles.
- Expert knowledge/experience with container technologies including OpenShift Kubernetes and Podman/Docker (build configure support)
- In-depth Linux systems expertise including configuration and administration.
- Ability to write maintainable scripts in Python Bash or Perl.
- Experience with automation tools including Ansible and/or Terraform HCL.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure services particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).
- Experience with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to manage Kubernetes clusters at scale.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering MIS or a related field preferred.
Pay Range:$68-$83/hr
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