Location :: Dallas, TX
Contract
About this role:
Senior Software Engineer within the Application and Cloud Transformation (ACT) team. The Application and Cloud Transformation (ACT) team is responsible for delivery of enterprise class platforms and services to stakeholders across the firm, with a deliberate focus on enabling and delivering a cloud native strategy. Our mission is to deliver stable, secure, scalable, OpenShift Container Platform (PaaS) based technologies and innovative services at speeds that delight and satisfy our customers and unleash the skills potential of our customers. This role will provide technical knowledge around OpenShift Container platforms, environments, and emerging services to the Cloud PO / PaaS APO (US) with team members and partners to effectively partner with business stakeholders and drive the requirements gathering, strategy, roadmap, and backlog prioritization to deliver next generation hosting environments to our business partners.
This role is expected to be an engineer with platform experience supporting OpenShift Container orchestration, customer onboarding and runtime management.  Candidate should have experience in creating, delivering, and securing OpenShift at scale for large enterprise, financial services, or other large, regulated sectors. Aggressive modernization milestones and deliverables tied to the hosting strategy, cloud strategy, and modernization roadmap are tied to delivery. The Lead Software Engineer must adopt and support a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness.
In this role, you will:
- Design, influence, and execute transformation required for OpenShift adoption across the enterprise while ensuring alignment with architecture, security, and other key Technology frameworks.
- Evangelize opportunities, challenges, and security advantages of integrated OpenShift services.
- Develop and implement cloud-based procedures, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cloud asset inventory strategies.
- Proactively prioritize, analyze, and address complex problems and incidents to ensure the highest level of environment stability and availability.
- Utilize analytical and problem-solving skills to define problems, proactively innovate, provide credible challenge, and translate vision into strategic solutions.
- Support complex technology Cloud initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.
- Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
- Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
- Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.Â
- Make decisions in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering and large-scale technology solutions. Design, Optimization and Documentation of the Engineering aspects of the Cloud platform.
- Understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
- Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
- Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
- Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust Cloud centric solutions.
- Maintain system documentation and provide training and support to team members on OpenShift best practices.
Required Qualifications, International:
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience working with OpenShift and have a proven track record of building complex infrastructure programmatically through automation and scripting(bash, Python).
- 5+ years of experience in building, deploying, securing, and managing OpenShift across various environments.
- 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems and container orchestration.
- 3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
- 3+ years of experience with Agile, CI/CD, DevOps concepts, including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Tekton, Harness, ArgoCD.
- 3+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, AppD, New Relic, Elastic, Open Telemetry)
- Drive architectural discussions and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for high visibility cloud initiatives to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, cost effectiveness and high availability in the private cloud space.
- In depth, practical experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, trends, and industry-leading cloud vendor offerings.
- Experienced in implementing risk and control requirements for cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and hybrid infrastructure setups.
- Knowledge of networking, security, and storage concepts as they relate to containerized environments.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
- Ability to deliver & engage with partners effectively in a multi-cultural environment by demonstrating co-ownership & accountability in a matrix structure.
- Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.
Thanks & Regards,
Maddula Venkateshwara Reddy | ICS Global Soft
Senior. US IT RECRUITER
venkatreddy61996@gmail.com
