The Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer will be accountable for engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to Delta's Platform-as-a-Service offering.
Overview:
The Senior OpenShift Platform & Onboarding Engineer will be accountable for assisting with application migrations to the Delta's containerized Platform-as-a-Service offering. As a member of the Cloud Engineering Team, engineers will also be involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to the platform, automation, and other related activities.
Responsibilities:
Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, with a focus on application concerns including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines
Assist application teams with on-boarding to the OpenShift platform - Resource requirements, capacity analysis, troubleshooting support
Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its constituent components to those less familiar
Building, testing, and administering several highly available RedHat OpenShift Container Platform clusters
Work with vendors to develop solutions, feature enhancements, and define technical infrastructure environment specific to our organization
Work with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integrations with other internal systems.
Monitor hardware, VM and container metrics for the purposes of maintaining cluster health and identifying thresholds for scaling.
Rotational 24x7 on-call support
Define and document standards and guidelines
Develop and automate repeatable tasks
Consult with development users to determine requirements and recommend solutions
Assist with configuration and maintenance of interfaces for related tool integrations
Performance tuning of infrastructure components.
Review project deliverables of completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards.
Document and communicate the status of progress against plans, taking corrective action if necessary
Identify, clarify, and resolve project activity issues and risks, escalating as needed
Upholds enterprise policy guidelines and recommends new and improved guidelines as appropriate
Partner with architects to design and engineer solutions for internal customers
Develops and maintains a positive rapport with other teams in the IT organization
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
5+ years' experience working with RedHat OpenShift Infrastructure design, deployment and operational support
Extensive knowledge of Linux Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures
Extensive knowledge of automation through cloud native technologies such as step functions and lambda functions
2+ year's experience working on foundational work in AWS
2+ year's experience working with RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system
Experience with Java, JBoss, Springboot, WAS/WXS, Node.js and enterprise application architectures
Specific knowledge and experience with migrating and refactoring applications to containerized workloads
Demonstrated skill in at least one or more configuration management/scripting technology (such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet)
Specific knowledge and experience provisioning multi-node HA clusters - including monitoring, performance testing, and application deployment
Deep conceptual and applied understanding of DevOps concepts, tools, and practices
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Tekton or comparable substitutes
Must have good analytic skills and the ability to apply these skills in a multi-tasking environment where more than one project may require participation at a given time.
Must have outstanding skills in communicating complex technical issues, and providing comprehensive written, oral and/or digital products.
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
Working knowledge of networking topics such as protocols, firewalls, etc.
Working knowledge of SSL certificate management and Venafi
