Principal, Infrastructure Innovation & Automation
$169,000–$229,700 year
HybridDallas, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead enterprise OpenShift architecture and platform strategy by designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available Kubernetes platforms. Define standards for RHEL, Kubernetes, and platform engineering while leading automation with Ansible and Terraform. Architect secure Kubernetes platforms using RBAC, secrets, and policy, then build standardized deployment patterns with Helm, Operators, and ArgoCD. Develop reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, and compliance, and design enterprise CI/CD platforms and GitOps workflows. Mentor senior engineers and lead complex troubleshooting, partnering across Development, Security, Networking, and Infrastructure teams. Own platform reliability, disaster recovery strategy, capacity planning, and infrastructure cost optimization. Communicate technical strategy, risk, and roadmaps to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years infrastructure engineering
- 7+ years Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 5+ years Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift administration
- Extensive experience leading automation initiatives
- Proven technical leadership and mentoring
- Expert: Kubernetes
- Expert: Red Hat OpenShift
- Expert: RHEL
- Expert: Ansible Automation Platform
- Expert: Terraform
- Expert: Infrastructure as Code
- Expert: CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton/OpenShift Pipelines)
- GitOps: ArgoCD
- GitOps: ApplicationSets
- Python and Bash scripting
- Helm
- Operators
- Kubernetes networking
- Kubernetes storage
- Kubernetes security
- Observability (Prometheus, Grafana)
- 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)
- Sound knowledge of information security, compliance, and risk management as it relates to infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree is a plus
- RHCA (Highly Preferred)
- RHCE
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift
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