Mid Level OpenShift Operation Engineers

TEKsystems•Chandler, AZ

9d•$54 - $58•Hybrid

About The Position

• Owns cluster builds end to end • Leads incident/problem/change management • Handles complex troubleshooting • Minimal guidance needed • Mentors junior engineers

Requirements

Strong OpenShift platform operations experience (cluster builds, day 1/day 2 operations)
Production support experience, including incident/problem/change management
Python scripting (Engineer 5 requires deeper proficiency)
Observability tooling: Grafana and Splunk

Nice To Haves

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
Experience participating in AI Ops initiatives (Engineer 5 especially)
Prior financial services experience (not required)
Kubernetes ecosystem familiarity beyond OpenShift

Responsibilities

Build new OpenShift clusters (day 1) and deploy into the environment
Perform full lifecycle day 2 operations: patching, maintenance, upgrades, hardware support
Troubleshoot platform issues and drive incident/problem/change management
Support platform stability and reliability across private cloud Kubernetes environments
Participate in on call rotation (currently weekly; may change as team grows)
Engineer 5: act as architectural level backup to the manager, lead operational transformation, contribute to AI Ops strategy, and drive automation via Python
Engineer 4: independently lead operational tasks, cluster builds, and incident response with minimal guidance
Engineer 3: perform core L2 operations with some guidance; handle routine platform tasks and troubleshooting