OpenShift Platform Engineer

Location: Remote, USA; United States of America

Salary: $97,100–$161,800 annual (USD)

Company

M&T Bank is a financial services organization operating enterprise technology platforms in a regulated environment.

What you will do

• Deploy, configure, upgrade, scale, maintain, and support production Red Hat OpenShift clusters across hybrid infrastructure.
• Lead small- to medium-complexity OpenShift engineering efforts through requirements, implementation, testing, documentation, and production support.
• Automate cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and operational tasks using scripting, infrastructure as code, configuration management, GitOps, and CI/CD.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes, Linux, container, networking, ingress, DNS, certificate, storage, compute, identity, and application-connectivity issues.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, health checks, platform metrics, backup, recovery, resiliency, and disaster-recovery capabilities.
• Implement RBAC, workload security controls, secrets, certificates, platform policies, secure application-onboarding configurations, and self-service patterns; participate in incident response and on-call support.

Requirements

• Combined minimum of 6 years of higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management, and/or architecture.
• Demonstrated experience administering and supporting production OpenShift or Kubernetes environments.
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting across OpenShift/Kubernetes and supporting Linux, containers, networking, storage, compute, identity, and application technologies.
• Experience automating infrastructure or platform operations through scripting, configuration management, infrastructure as code, GitOps, or CI/CD.
• Experience with Git-based development, peer review, testing, and controlled change-management practices.
• Ability to independently deliver engineering work with limited supervision, gather and analyze technical requirements, identify implementation risks, and recommend solutions using technical evidence.
• Working knowledge of platform resiliency, high availability, observability, backup, and recovery practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work across application and infrastructure teams.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
• Production, multi-cluster Red Hat OpenShift experience, including Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon EKS, or OpenShift on AWS.
• Linux systems-administration experience and familiarity with Podman or Docker.
• GitOps and continuous delivery experience with Argo CD or a comparable platform.
• Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, or Bash.
• Knowledge of metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting, capacity analysis, container security, vulnerability remediation, image governance, secrets management, certificates, and policy enforcement.
• Experience supporting application onboarding to OpenShift or Kubernetes and working in financial services or another highly regulated environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time individual-contributor role supporting enterprise production platforms.
• Contribute to reusable engineering standards, automation, operational procedures, and documentation.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, support, cybersecurity, risk, control, and vendor teams.
• Participate in an on-call support rotation and follow engineering, change-management, IT service-management, security, risk, and regulatory practices.
• National annual pay range of $97,100–$161,800; the applicable range may vary by location and compensation is based on skills, knowledge, and experience.