Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lead, Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Chicago, IL or Coppell, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Qualifications

·        Bachelor's degree

·        7+ 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.