Lead OpenShift Engineer

Lead OpenShift Engineer

Charlotte, North Carolina

Hybrid

Contract

$90.63/hr - $99.32/hr

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Lead OpenShift Engineer - in Charlotte, NC. Phoenix, AZ. Chandler, AZ. or Irving, TX. (Hybrid). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today. Contract Duration: 12 Months

Role Responsibilities

• 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+ year's 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
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus)
• Proven ability to drive operational strategy, continuous improvement, and large-scale stability initiatives
• Excellent analytical and cross-team communication skills

Job Expectations

• Expected to lead escalations and support major incidents
• Participation in on-call leadership
• Hybrid work required from one of the posted locations

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP's Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Specialization: Data Engineering