Senior Software Engineer – OpenShift / Cloud Platform
Location: Charlotte, NC / Iselin, NJ
Openings: 2
Job Type: Contract – 12+ Months
Rate: $55/hour on W2
Visa: & H1B
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Application and Cloud Transformation (ACT) team. This role will focus on building, securing, managing, and modernizing enterprise-scale OpenShift Container Platform (PaaS) environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with OpenShift, Linux, container orchestration, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and observability. The candidate will work closely with cloud, platform engineering, architecture, security, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available cloud-native solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support enterprise-scale OpenShift platforms across multiple environments.
- Drive OpenShift adoption and modernization initiatives aligned with cloud, architecture, and security strategies.
- Build and manage infrastructure using automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Support customer onboarding, runtime management, platform optimization, and operational stability.
- Develop and implement cloud procedures for monitoring, compliance, security, and asset management.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex OpenShift, cloud, infrastructure, coding, and platform issues.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD and DevOps practices across cloud and container platforms.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to improve platform reliability and availability.
- Partner with production support, platform engineering, architecture, and security teams.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide engineering standards, best practices, and technical roadmaps.
- Participate in architectural discussions and serve as a technical SME for high-visibility cloud initiatives.
- Optimize infrastructure and resource utilization while identifying opportunities to reduce operational costs.
- Document platform architecture, engineering processes, and best practices.
- Provide technical guidance, training, and knowledge sharing to engineering teams.
- Collaborate effectively with globally distributed and cross-functional teams.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of Software Engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on OpenShift experience, including building, deploying, securing, and managing OpenShift environments at scale.
- Strong experience with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and container orchestration.
- 5+ years of Linux experience.
- Strong experience with Bash and Python scripting.
- 3+ years of Infrastructure Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
- 3+ years of CI/CD and DevOps experience with tools such as:
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Tekton
- Harness
- ArgoCD
- 3+ years of Monitoring, Logging & Observability experience with tools such as:
- Splunk
- Grafana
- AppDynamics
- New Relic
- Elastic
- OpenTelemetry
- Hands-on experience with Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience working with hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of cloud methodologies – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Knowledge of networking, security, and storage concepts within containerized environments.
- Experience implementing cloud security, risk, and compliance controls.
- Strong understanding of automation, orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience working in Agile, DevOps, and enterprise environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical solutions to both technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting large enterprise, financial services, or highly regulated environments.
- Experience designing highly available, secure, scalable private cloud/OpenShift platforms.
- Experience serving as a technical SME for enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
- Experience driving platform modernization, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps.
