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Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Request Technology, LLCCoppell, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 21 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your career leading enterprise OpenShift strategy and implementation with a competitive salary and bonus, while enjoying hybrid flexibility to balance your work and life. You'll thrive in this role if you have extensive experience in Linux, Kubernetes, and automation, and are passionate about building and mentoring teams to deliver cutting-edge infrastructure solutions. Don't miss this opportunity to make a significant impact at a reputable company!

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Lead, Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Coppell, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 10+ years infrastructure engineering.
  • 7+ years Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • 5+ years Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift administration.
  • Expert: Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code.
  • Expert: CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton/OpenShift Pipelines).
  • GitOps: ArgoCD, ApplicationSets.
  • Python and Bash scripting.
  • Helm, Operators, Kubernetes networking, storage, security.
  • Observability (Prometheus, Grafana) and container registries.
  • Deep understanding of modern infrastructure architecture, including compute, network, storage, and cloud-native platforms (preferably AWS)
  • Strong experience with DevOps practices and ITSM tools (change, incident, and problem management)

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise OpenShift architecture and platform strategy.
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms.
  • Define standards for RHEL, Kubernetes, and platform engineering.
  • Lead automation using Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform.
  • Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms and GitOps workflows.
  • Develop reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, and compliance.
  • Architect secure Kubernetes platforms with RBAC, secrets, certificates, and policy.
  • Build standardized deployment patterns using Helm, Operators, and ArgoCD.
  • Mentor senior engineers and lead complex troubleshooting and platform improvements.
  • Partner across Development, Security, Networking, and Infrastructure teams.
  • Own platform reliability and disaster recovery strategy, including capacity planning and infrastructure cost optimization.

Skills

AWS
Ansible
ArgoCD
Bash
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Grafana
Helm
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Python
Terraform

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