Systems Engineer III – Containers

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

📋 Description

• Install, configure, manage, and provide support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters.

• Execute cluster lifecycle management tasks, including upgrades, patching, maintenance, and capacity planning.

• Monitor the health, performance, and resource utilization of the cluster.

• Oversee worker nodes, control plane nodes, Operators, ingress controllers, routes, projects/namespaces, and persistent storage.

• Diagnose and resolve incidents and service disruptions related to the platform.

• Assist with Kubernetes workloads operating on OpenShift clusters.

• Set up and manage deployments, services, ingress, networking, and storage.

• Supervise containerized applications and platform services.

• Investigate and resolve issues related to pods, nodes, networking, and storage.

• Implement best practices for workload optimization and resource management.

• Administer and provide support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.

• Carry out server provisioning, patching, hardening, and performance tuning.

• Support virtualization and infrastructure environments that host OpenShift platforms.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Git.

• Automate routine administrative and operational tasks.

• Facilitate CI/CD platform integrations and deployment automation.

• Aid development teams with application onboarding and deployment processes.

• Establish and uphold security controls for OpenShift clusters.

• Configure RBAC and security policies.

• Manage the lifecycle of secrets and certificates.

• Assist with vulnerability remediation and compliance efforts.

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards.

• Monitor platform availability and performance using enterprise monitoring tools.

• Set up alerts, dashboards, and reporting metrics.

• Participate in on-call support and incident response activities.

• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.

• Maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation.

• Work in conjunction with DevOps, Cloud, Security, and Application Development teams to provide reliable and scalable container platform services.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 4 years of experience in cloud engineering OR High School Diploma or GED with 8 years of experience in cloud engineering.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in systems engineering or infrastructure administration.

• At least 3 years of practical experience in OpenShift and Kubernetes administration.

• Experience in supporting production container platforms within enterprise environments.

• Strong background in Linux system administration.

• Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) or various Kubernetes distributions.

• Knowledge of Docker/container runtime technologies.

• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes Operators.

• Proficiency in OpenShift Pipelines, GitOps, and ArgoCD.

• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including Linux performance tuning and security hardening.

• Proficient in shell scripting.

• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Git, and Bash/Python scripting.

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware.

• Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, SSL/TLS certificates, network policies, routing, and firewall concepts.

• Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK/EFK Stack, and OpenShift Monitoring Stack.

• Preferred certifications include Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, RHCE, CKA, CKAD, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes, along with AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits program.

• Variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards may be included in total compensation.