Lead-OpenShift Engineer Platform Operations

Motion Recruitment
Charlotte, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charlotte, United States of America

Tech stack

Bash
Monitoring of Systems
Information Technology Operations
Python
Linux System Administration
Openshift
Software Engineering
Grafana
Containerization
Kubernetes
Splunk
Docker

Job description

This role focuses on hands-on platform operations, including cluster maintenance, incident response, monitoring, and operational automation. The engineer will ensure platform stability, reliability, and compliance while supporting production workloads running on OpenShift-based infrastructure.

This is strictly a platform operations role - not responsible for application development or migration work., Platform Operations

  • Support routine operations across Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters
  • Perform cluster builds, maintenance tasks, and node management
  • Assist with deployments and operational execution tasks
  • Follow standard operating procedures (runbooks)

Incident Management

  • Participate in incident response and on-call rotation
  • Triage and troubleshoot production issues
  • Document incidents, root cause findings, and preventive actions
  • Ensure timely acknowledgment of alerts

Monitoring & Observability

  • Monitor dashboards, alerts, and system logs
  • Use observability tools (Grafana, Splunk, etc.) for issue detection and analysis
  • Escalate issues per operational guidelines and runbooks

Automation & Scripting

  • Contribute to automation using Python, Bash, or similar tools
  • Reduce repetitive operational tasks through scripting improvements
  • Support AIOps-driven operational enhancements (as applicable)

Operational Compliance

  • Follow security policies, change control processes, and audit requirements
  • Ensure adherence to operational standards and platform governance

Collaboration

  • Work closely with senior engineers and platform leads
  • Support continuous improvement of platform stability and reliability
  • Participate in knowledge sharing and documentation efforts

Requirements

We are seeking a detail-oriented Operations Engineer (Infrastructure Engineer 3) to support day-to-day operations of enterprise Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms., * 3+ years experience in Systems Operations, IT Operations, or Platform Support

  • 2+ years experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container platforms
  • 2+ years experience with Linux system administration
  • 2+ years experience with container technologies (Docker or equivalent)

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