Engineer, Container Platforms

Responsibilities

• Build, support, and maintain Kubernetes and OpenShift platform infrastructure
• Capacity planning, tuning, policy and cost management
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, propose, and implement solutions
• Provide support to, and coordinate with developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
• Educate and mentor platform consumers, team members and operations staff
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support
• Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment

Knowledge and Experience

• Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Platform Engineering
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift in a Production environment
• Understanding of major Kubernetes components and familiarity with industry standard implementations of CNI, CSI and ingresses
• Horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability
• Experience with platform and application observability (tracing, logging metrics)
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving
• Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
• Project Management, organization, and time management
• Customer focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Experience with self-managed Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
• Experience with OpenShift deployments on-prem and in commercial clouds
• Experience with Kubernetes policy engines, e.g. Kyverno
• Experience with performant implementations of service meshes
• Experience with Docker and/or Podman
• Build automation and configuration management
• Advanced scripting experience (Python, Bash, Powershell)
• Experience with Ansible
  • Exposure and experience with using AI tools including copilot, claude, or similar to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and integrate into daily activities