Senior Container Platform Engineer
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$170k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, administer, upgrade, optimize, and support PCF/Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift environments in production.
- Design and operate resilient, secure, repeatable enterprise container platforms across on-premises data centers.
- Lead platform architecture, engineering standards, lifecycle planning, automation, and complex production support.
- Implement high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, capacity management, patching, security remediation, and platform upgrades.
- Troubleshoot issues involving Linux, compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and observability.
- Develop production-quality automation and software, including APIs, scripting, automated testing, and source control workflows.
- Implement metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and actionable service health indicators.
- Partner with application, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams.
- Lead work from design through stable production operation, mentor engineers, and develop runbooks, reference architectures, standards, and support procedures.
- Participate in an on-call production support rotation.
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 production platform responsibility.
- 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 experience managing container platforms in on-premises data centers.
- 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.
- Production-quality automation or software development experience with Python, C#, Java, Go, or a comparable modern language.
- Experience with Git-based delivery, continuous integration/continuous delivery, GitOps, declarative configuration, and infrastructure or configuration-as-code practices.
- Experience implementing enterprise observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service health indicators.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems, make decisions in ambiguous situations, communicate tradeoffs, influence cross-functional partners, and lead work through production operation.
- Ability and willingness to participate in an on-call production support rotation.
- Preferred experience with PCF or Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift in large, regulated, on-premises environments.
- Preferred experience with OpenShift GitOps or Argo CD, Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security, OpenShift Pipelines, Quay, Concourse, or comparable platform management and delivery tooling.
- Preferred experience with Ansible Automation Platform and platform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, application onboarding, and remediation automation.
- Preferred 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.
- Preferred experience with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry-compatible tooling, or similar enterprise observability platforms.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud in hybrid-cloud evaluation and 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 are preferred.
- Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience, mentoring experience, and experience developing durable platform documentation are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is intended to be performed on site in the specified location or locations.
- The position includes participation in an on-call production support rotation.
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
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About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.