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# Container Platform Engineer

- **Company:** TD Ameritrade
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Foundry, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Linux System Administration, Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, Public Key Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Prometheus, Service Discovery, Virtualization Technology, VMware VSphere, Backup and Restore, Data Logging, Scripting, Google Cloud, Load Balancing, System Availability, Grafana, HybridCloud, Git, Concourse, Containerization, Tanzu, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, SDN Network, Data Management, Splunk, Software Version Control, Golang
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.schwabjobs.com/financial-consultant-academy-opportunity-branch-network

## About the Role

As a senior technical contributor, you will influence platform architecture, engineering standards, lifecycle planning, automation, and complex production support. You will solve issues spanning Linux, compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and observability while partnering across application, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams. Success requires strong technical judgment, problem solving, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to turn production lessons into lasting platform improvements. This role participates in an on-call production support rotation., * Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical work experience.

 * 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, software development, or infrastructure automation, including senior-level responsibility for production platforms.
 * 4+ years of hands-on experience building, administering, upgrading, and supporting enterprise PCF, Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenShift, or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms in production.
 * Significant hands-on experience managing container platforms hosted in on-premises data centers.
 * Demonstrated experience with production platform architecture and operations, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, capacity management, patching, upgrades, security remediation, and lifecycle planning.
 * Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and container platform concepts, including cluster architecture, operators, scheduling, ingress, service discovery, persistent storage, registries, secrets, certificates, identity integration, and policy enforcement.
 * Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills across operating systems, containers, networks, storage, and distributed platform services.
 * Experience developing production-quality automation or software using Python, C#, Java, Go, or a comparable modern language, including APIs, scripting, automated testing, and source control.
 * Experience with Git-based delivery, continuous integration/continuous delivery, GitOps, declarative configuration, and infrastructure or configuration-as-code practices.
 * Experience implementing observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and actionable service health indicators.
 * Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems, make sound decisions in ambiguous situations, communicate tradeoffs, influence cross-functional partners, and lead work from design through stable production operation.
 * Ability and willingness to participate in an on-call production support rotation., * Deep experience with both PCF or Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift in large, regulated, on-premises environments.
 * Experience with OpenShift GitOps or Argo CD, Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security, OpenShift Pipelines, Quay, Concourse, or comparable platform management and delivery tooling.
 * Experience with Ansible Automation Platform and platform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, application onboarding, and remediation automation.
 * Experience integrating container platforms with VMware vSphere or other enterprise virtualization, software-defined networking, enterprise storage, load balancers, DNS, PKI, identity providers, secrets management, and security tooling.
 * Experience with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry-compatible tooling, or similar enterprise observability platforms.
 * Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud supporting hybrid-cloud evaluation and future platform planning.
 * Relevant certifications such as Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift, Kubernetes CKA or CKS, or Tanzu and Cloud Foundry certifications.
 * Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
 * Experience mentoring engineers and developing durable runbooks, reference architectures, engineering standards, support procedures, and reusable platform patterns.