Lead OCP Engineer

Title: Lead OCP Engineer

Location: Dallas TX / Charlotte NC

Job Description

In this role you will:

• Design influence and execute transformation required for OpenShift adoption across the enterprise while ensuring alignment with architecture security and other key Technology frameworks.
• Evangelize opportunities challenges and security advantages of integrated OpenShift services.
• Develop and implement cloud-based procedures continuous monitoring compliance and cloud asset inventory strategies.
• Proactively prioritize analyze and address complex problems and incidents to ensure the highest level of environment stability and availability.
• Utilize analytical and problem-solving skills to define problems proactively innovate provide credible challenge and translate vision into strategic solutions.
• Support complex technology Cloud initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.
• Resolve coding testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
• Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
• Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.
• Make decisions in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering and large-scale technology solutions. Design Optimization and Documentation of the Engineering aspects of the Cloud platform.
• Understanding of industry best practices and new technologies influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts senior technology team and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
• Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust Cloud centric solutions.
• Maintain system documentation and provide training and support to team members on OpenShift best practices.

Required Qualifications International:

• 5 years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education.
• 5 years of hands-on experience working with OpenShift and have a proven track record of building complex infrastructure programmatically through automation and scripting(bash Python).
• 5 years of experience in building deploying securing and managing OpenShift across various environments.
• 5 years of experience with Linux operating systems and container orchestration.
• 3 years of experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible Terraform or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience with Agile CI/CD DevOps concepts including tools such as Jenkins GitLab or Tekton Harness ArgoCD.
• 3 years of experience with monitoring logging observability tools (Splunk Grafana AppD New Relic Elastic Open Telemetry)
• Drive architectural discussions and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for high visibility cloud initiatives to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment security cost effectiveness and high availability in the private cloud space.
• In depth practical experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS PaaS SaaS) automation orchestration trends and industry-leading cloud vendor offerings.
• Experienced in implementing risk and control requirements for cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure GCP) and hybrid infrastructure setups.
• Knowledge of networking security and storage concepts as they relate to containerized environments.
• Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
• Ability to deliver & engage with partners effectively in a multi-cultural environment by demonstrating co-ownership & accountability in a matrix structure.
• Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with cloud security management or governance tools.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or similar certification.
• Knowledge of service mesh load balancers DDI technologies