Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Description

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development - Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of OpenShift Site Reliability and DevOps Engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

• Platform Operations - Oversee operations of the On-Prem OpenShift platforms across our EDCs, China Data Centers, and Plants during Asia/Pacific (India) hours in alignment with 24x7 support model and EPEO MTT(x) metrics. Individual in this role must be comfortable participating in an on-call support rotation in an escalation role

• Platform Automation - Lead and oversee implementation of new automation or adoption of new feature capabilities that drive operational efficiencies or developer experience improvements

• Security/Compliance - In tandem with counterparts and the global OpenShift platform engineering team, ensure that all Information Security Policy (ISP), regulatory, and industry security/best practices are implemented and enforced on the entirety of our environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or related field or equivalent work experience)
• (5+ years) Strong Linux knowledge on multiple platforms (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE).
• (3+ years) Experience in use of Kubernetes (upstream or enterprise distributions).
• (3+ years) In-depth use of Cloud-based PaaS and IaaS. Google Cloud (GCP) and Azure experience preferred.
• (2+ years) Experience with GIT and CI/CD pipelines using Tekton, GitHub Actions, CloudBuild, and/or Jenkins.
• (2+ years) Experience working in a GitOps Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) driven environment (w/ tooling such as Ansible and/or terraform)

• Demonstrable proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (Golang or bash/shell highly preferred)

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

• Demonstrated knowledge of RESTFUL API concepts and JSON formats.
• Working knowledge of application development architectures, web deployment methodologies and mobile technologies.

• (3+ years) Experience directly or indirectly managing or leading software engineering, site reliability, or platform engineering teams with full-stack (planning, engineering, and operations) responsibilities
• (3+ years) Experience leading and/or working in a globally distributed team with regional colocation of team members
• Experience or willingness to act as an escalation point on engineering or operational issues - Including customer escalations
• Experience working in a paired programming / engineering team, ability to mentor in such an environment
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

• Prior experience working with RedHat OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualization or Certifications (CKA, CKAD, RedHat EX280 certification)
• Knowledge of networking, security, and storage concepts as they relate to containerized environments.

• Experience contributing to or working with open-source projects (CNCF recognized or other)

• Experience with GitOps for managing OpenShift configurations