Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Houston, TX or Tulsa, OK

Description

Looking for an OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) administrator and developer to become a part of our growing team. The OCP administrator will facilitate the adoption of Red Hat's OCP within the organization by assisting the infrastructure teams in the design, implementation, and support of OCP that hosts our L48 vended application container environment.

• The candidate must have senior level OpenShift and Kubernetes experience.

• The successful candidate will possess a strong developer background as well as interpersonal skills needed to communicate design requirements and objectives while providing thought leadership to peers and leadership.

• Candidates should be self-motivated and collaborative IT professionals with a strong background in software development, systems administration and IT automation.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design, build, management and operation of the infrastructure as a service layer (on-prem and cloud-based platforms) that supports the different platform services.

• Design automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on application concerns, including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI and CD pipelines.

• Provide mentoring to the infrastructure and developer communities in the best practices associated with CI/CD deployments using Jenkins, ADO, and GIT.

• Assist in the design, build, management and operation of the continuous delivery framework and tools, and act as a subject matter expert on the OpenShift Platform for our infrastructure teams.

• Write and build continuous delivery pipelines to manage and automate the lifecycle of the different platform components.

Required Qualifications

• Candidates must have a Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of IT experience * Senior level experience with OCP and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as IDEs (Eclipse), Source Code management. (GIT/Stash), Jenkins, Maven, Nexus artifacts, etc..

• Build automation, CI:CD and DevOps.

• Excellent written and oral communications skills

• Demonstrated ability to communicate to nontechnical audience on technical issues.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate on a technical level to a technical audience.

• Strong interpersonal skills, adaptable and able to learn quickly.

• Requires limited supervision and have excellent time management skills.

• Self-motivated and self-starter.

• Ability to work and interact with others in a structured/team environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in cloud/virtual technologies and management – VMware, AWS, Azure, etc.

• Knowledge, skills and abilities to manage container image repositories in support of Linux Containers.

• Knowledge, skills and abilities to deploy OpenShift Container Platform in both public and private cloud.

• Knowledge, skills and abilities to engineer and automate application deployment via CI/CD Pipelines using industry best practices and open source software.