Senior Container Platform Engineer

Charles Schwab Inc.•Austin, TX

1d•$170,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Schwab, the Senior Container Platform Engineer will join the Infrastructure Platforms organization to build and operate resilient, secure, and repeatable enterprise container platforms across on-premises data centers. The role designs, automates, optimizes, and supports PCF/Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift environments that enable application teams to deploy and operate containerized workloads at scale. As a senior technical contributor, this engineer will influence platform architecture, engineering standards, lifecycle planning, automation, and complex production support. The role addresses issues spanning Linux, compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and observability, while partnering with application, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams. Success requires technical judgment, problem solving, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to turn production lessons into lasting platform improvements. The position participates in an on-call production support rotation and is intended to be performed on site in the specified location(s). The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Build and operate resilient, secure, and repeatable enterprise container platforms across on-premises data centers.
Design, automate, optimize, and support PCF/Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift environments.
Influence platform architecture, engineering standards, automation, and lifecycle planning.
Provide complex production support and troubleshoot issues involving Linux, compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and observability.
Partner with application, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams.
Participate in an on-call production support rotation.
Turn production lessons into lasting platform improvements.