DevOps Engineer – OpenShift / CI/CD

Job Title – DevOps Engineer – OpenShift / CI/CD Automation
Location – Charlotte, NC (Hybrid – 3 days)
Duration - Long Term

Interview Process: 2 virtual rounds; onsite interview may also be requested

Please refer only hands-on DevOps candidates with strong OpenShift/Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible/Ansible Tower, CI/CD, Linux, and scripting experience.

Job Summary

• This person will be joining the EIT DevOps team and working across multiple applications. Day-to-day responsibilities will include:
• Supporting multiple application CI/CD pipelines and OpenShift workloads
• Troubleshooting, investigating, and remediating CI/CD and OpenShift failures
• Onboarding new services
• Standardizing existing services and deployment patterns
• Automating repetitive work
• Vulnerability remediation and management
• Performance and reliability improvements
• Occasional weekend deployment support, although this will be the exception rather than the rule
• Primary pipeline/tooling is Bitbucket / Jenkins / Ansible / XLR / OpenShift.

We're looking for someone who is hands-on and technically strong, not someone whose experience is primarily DevOps coordination or process management. They should be comfortable troubleshooting real CI/CD and OpenShift problems, working through failures, and automating solutions rather than simply escalating issues.

Top Skills

• Able to configure, deploy and support workloads on OpenShift independently
• Know Ansible Tower setup
• Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar/Aqua scans, Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins experience
• Ability to troubleshoot quickly and effectively in a high-pressure situation
• Adaptable to work on various infrastructure automation needs.
• Production support on need basis
• Seeking 4+ years of experience

Required Skills

• Work with Application and development Teams to onboard applications to/integrate with CI/CD platform
• Ability to Configure, Deploy, and Support Bank workloads to securely run and operate in Container Infra (K8s/RedHat Open Shift/AKS)
• Responsible for engineering of new capabilities to the OpenShift/Container Platforms and delivering those capabilities in a fully automated and supportable fashion
• Develop software or system scripts to simplify or eliminate the dependence on human intervention for recurring tasks
• Identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement in the solution
• A solid understanding of SDLC
• Expert level working with Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Ansible, Ansible Tower, JIRA
• Experience in release/build engineering processes, A/B deployments and testing
• Experience implementing and supporting Continuous Integration and Delivery practices and automation tools
• Experience working in Groovy and Python
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to support development teams in a fast-paced environment in critical situations
• Experience with modern performance monitoring and diagnostics tools (examples: Splunk, Dynatrace etc.)

Foundational Skills

• Expertise in supporting Container production (K8s/RedHat OpenShift) environments, and associated maintenance, change control, incident, and problem management
• Strong experience in Linux administration, programming experience in at least one language (Python, Shell scripting)
• Strong experience in onboarding applications to OpenShift
• Strong experience in Infrastructure automation using Ansible or Python
• Experience in building large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
• Self-motivated and results oriented with excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
• Operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent priorities

Desired Skills

• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems
• Understand relevant application technologies and development life cycle
• Operational Process Routines: Strong adherence to operating controls, risk management, process review and creation, documentation, and collaborative knowledge sharing
• Inter-personal skills and Communication skills

Nice to Have

• RedHat OpenShift/Kubernetes Certifications
• Cloud native technologies experience - Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform