Principal Systems Engineer – Containers

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, upgrade, and maintain enterprise OpenShift clusters in both on-premises and cloud environments.

• Develop technical strategies and platform roadmaps that align with business objectives.

• Architect OpenShift environments that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable.

• Manage activities related to cluster lifecycle, including installation, upgrades, patching, backups, and disaster recovery.

• Establish standards for cluster provisioning, capacity planning, and workload optimization.

• Act as the subject matter expert on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift technologies.

• Administer control planes, worker nodes, operators, ingress controllers, routes, registries, storage classes, and service mesh.

• Enhance cluster performance and resource utilization.

• Troubleshoot intricate issues related to containers, networking, storage, and orchestration.

• Create Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD, and GitOps.

• Automate cluster deployments, configuration management, and operational tasks.

• Develop reusable automation frameworks to enhance platform reliability and consistency.

• Collaborate with development teams to facilitate the onboarding of applications into OpenShift.

• Implement and sustain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.

• Advocate for GitOps and cloud-native operational practices.

• Enhance deployment automation and developer self-service capabilities.

• Drive platform strategy, establish best practices, lead engineering teams, and collaborate with architects, security teams, developers, and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 10 years of experience as a Technical Hands-On Leader of System Engineering Teams, or a High School Diploma/GED with 14 years of relevant experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or platform engineering.

• More than 7 years of administration experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift.

• Experience in managing large-scale production OpenShift environments.

• Proven record of supporting highly regulated, mission-critical applications.

• Demonstrated experience in leading enterprise platform initiatives.

• Expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Kubernetes Administration.

• Familiarity with OpenShift Operators, OpenShift Service Mesh, OpenShift Pipelines, OpenShift GitOps, and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF).

• Proficient in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Linux Administration, and System Performance Tuning.

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and ArgoCD.

• Knowledge of DNS, Load Balancers, TCP/IP, Ingress/Egress, VPN, Service Mesh, and Istio.

• Familiarity with Ceph, NFS, SAN/NAS, Persistent Volumes, and CSI Drivers.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace/App Dynamics, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry.

• Preferred certifications include Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, RHCA, CKA, CKS, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator Associate, and Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards may be part of the total compensation package.

• A competitive, thoughtfully designed, and high-quality benefits program.