Senior OpenShift Engineer
Motion Recruitment · Irving, TX · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$65–$71.23/hrContract
About the role
A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Senior OpenShift Engineer in Charlotte, NC, Chandler, AZ, or Irving, TX (hybrid 3 days on-site).
Responsibilities
- Operational Leadership & Governance: Own 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: Work 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: Own 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.
- Expected to lead escalations and support major incidents
- Participation in on-call support
Requirements
- 6+ years’ experience in Systems Operations, Cloud Operations, SRE, or related operational roles
- 4+ 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
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
Benefits
- Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
- Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
- Paid Sick Time Leave
- Legal and Identity Protection Plans
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
- 529 College Saver Plan