Kubernetes Engineer

World Wide Technology (WWT) is hiring a Kubernetes Engineer - OpenShift for its Internal IT team. The role supports WWT’s container platform strategy by engineering and maintaining highly available OpenShift clusters, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and cloud capabilities, while helping application teams onboard and operate workloads securely and reliably.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between the infrastructure team and application development teams, guiding them through onboarding, containerization patterns, and self-service deployment to Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Assist in designing, building, and maintaining OpenShift clusters — control plane, worker nodes, networking, storage, and Operators — ensuring high availability, performance, and capacity for production workloads
• Maintain OpenShift platform health through node lifecycle management, cluster upgrades, and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), keeping the fleet current and secure
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD and GitOps pipelines that automate build, test, and deployment for application teams
• Manage and maintain Argo CD Applications and ApplicationSets, driving automated, git- based deployment and lifecycle management of workloads across clusters
• Use Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) to manage policy, governance, and application lifecycle across multiple OpenShift clusters
• Partner with application development teams to containerize applications, define resource requests/limits and autoscaling policies, and design namespace, RBAC, and network policy structures
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform) to standardize cluster provisioning, configuration, and upgrades
• Partner with security team to implement and maintain platform security controls, including image scanning, Security Context Constraints, admission policies (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper), and secrets management (Vault)
• Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure platform health and rapid incident response
• Extend platform capabilities into the cloud, working with Microsoft Azure (Azure Red Hat OpenShift/AKS) and other cloud platforms to support hybrid and multi-cloud container strategies
• Maintain reliability through capacity planning, backup and disaster recovery, change management, and tested rollback procedures; execute change tickets with validation; and participate in an on-call rotation
• Produce technical documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides, communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

• Typically 3-5 years of experience in Kubernetes/OpenShift engineering, container platform operations, or infrastructure automation
• Demonstrated ability to partner across teams and act as a liaison, helping application development teams onboard to and adopt Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Hands-on experience maintaining production Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters, including upgrades, scaling, and day-2 operations
• Strong familiarity with the OpenShift platform architecture, including control plane/worker node lifecycle, Operators/OLM, and cluster upgrades
• Familiarity with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for multi-cluster policy, governance, and application lifecycle management
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes core concepts — pods, deployments, services, ingress/routes, namespaces, RBAC, persistent storage, and networking (OVN- Kubernetes/SDN, Calico)
• Experience managing Kubernetes networking and traffic management concepts, including HAProxy, load balancer services, ingress controllers, and routes for exposing and load- balancing application traffic
• Experience with container security practices, including image scanning, Security Context Constraints, and secrets management
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling, incident response, change management, runbooks, rollback planning, and on-call support
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certifications, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Strong technical documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and/or other public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI), including Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) or AKS
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift GitOps (Argo CD), including managing Applications and ApplicationSets for automated, git-based deployments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton, ArgoCD, or similar) integrated with container registries and Kubernetes deployments
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform) and Git-based workflows
• Experience with advanced Argo CD patterns, such as the app-of-apps model and multi- cluster ApplicationSets for fleet-wide deployments
• Familiarity with Kubernetes storage solutions (OpenShift Data Foundation/Ceph, NetApp • Trident, CSI drivers)
• Experience using AI tools for log analysis, anomaly detection, or operational automation
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care
• Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness program
• Profit Sharing
• 401k Plan with Company Matching
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO & Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Medical Leave
• Military Leave
• Bereavement
• Day of Caring
• Family Planning Benefits
• Nursing Mothers Benefits
• Voluntary Legal
• Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital
• Voluntary ID Theft
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Discount Program

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