OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer

Only W2 (No C2C/1099)

Job title: Sr. OpenShift Engineer

Contract: 12 months (potential extension/conversion)

Hybrid working model – 3 day onsite/2 days remote

Location options: Chandler, AZ / Irving, TX / Charlotte, NC

About this role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Lead to guide the operational reliability, governance, and performance of our Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. This role leads operational strategy, incident readiness, stability engineering, automation initiatives, and day‑to‑day operations oversight. You will drive operational excellence, ensure compliance, reduce toil, and provide leadership across teams that support mission‑critical platforms.

In this role, you will:

• Operational Leadership & Governance: Own the operational health, lifecycle, and governance of Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. Drive standards, procedures, and operational readiness across all environments.
• Incident Management Leadership: Lead major incidents, coordinate cross‑team response, ensure timely restoration, manage communication, and drive root-cause and permanent corrective action.
• Reliability & Stability Improvements: Lead initiatives to enhance resilience, reduce platform incidents, eliminate recurring issues, and increase automation maturity.
• Operational Automation & Toil Reduction: Direct automation strategy for run operations, leveraging Python, GitOps, AI-assisted tooling, or self‑service workflows to reduce manual effort.
• OpenShift Platform Readiness: Lead OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities, including new cluster builds, configuration, onboarding, upgrades, and cluster decommissioning, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance across environments.
• Cross‑Team Operational Enablement: Influence engineering, security, and development teams to adopt consistent operational patterns, guardrails, and readiness practices.
• Compliance & Controls: Ensure adherence to regulatory, security, and audit requirements; maintain strong operational hygiene and documentation.
• Mentorship & Team Development: Guide other team members, develop skill maturity, and strengthen operational best practices across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in Systems Operations, Cloud Operations, SRE, or related operational roles
• 6 years in Kubernetes/OpenShift platform operations
• 4 years Linux systems operations experience
• Experience leading operational teams or platform operations functions
• Strong record of operational automation and incident leadership

Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise in OpenShift platform management, ACM, Git/GitOps

EEO:

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment based on – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”