*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

*Onsite 4 days a week*

A prestigious financial firm is looking for a Director Container Engineering. This director will manage over 15 direct reports in the US and some indirect reports in India. This will focus on 24/7 operational support of all containerization, CICD pipeline, APIs, etc. This director must be very technical with Kubernetes, VMware, Linux, Openshift, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership for container platform engineering and operations teams.
• Drive container platform engineering, architecture, monitoring, delivery, and operational frameworks.
• Design, implement and operate automated, container services platform with a focus on application concerns, including migrating workloads to containers, containerizing development workflows, high availability, networking policy, service routing, observability, integrating with shared enterprise services, integrating container platforms with automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, and platform security.
• Design and implement API's and other tooling as required to enable consumption of containerized computing resources as a secure, reliable, and highly automated service consumable by business focused development resources.
• Develop methodology and tooling as required in support of observability of applications and the platforms to support efforts such as capacity planning, workload placement and balancing, chargeback, etc.
• Drive initiatives across organization boundaries as required to ensure availability of underlying infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, and cybersecurity services as required in support of container platform service requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors in computer science, Physics, Math, Engineering or comparable experience.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS or GKE/Anthos is a plus but not required.
• 7+ Years of experience of leading a team consisting senior technology and architects.
• Two years of experience building and maintaining Kubernetes cluster deployments with a preference for experience with vendor supported variants such as VMware PKS/TKGI and IBM/Redhat OpenShift.
• Hands on experience deploying and supporting Kubernetes on at least one IaaS provider (Azure, Amazon, GCP).
• Three years of experience building and supporting distributed computing environments.
• Robust proficiency in Linux and/or Windows systems.
• Demonstrated competency in a programming/Scripting language, with a strong preference for Go experience.
• Experience designing and implementing infrastructure automation API's using interface definition tools like Swagger.
• Strong understanding of virtual computing environments and concepts such as hypervisors, virtual Switches, vCPU, and load balancing concepts.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP network concepts including bridging, switching, routing & DNS.
• Experience working with one or more CNI provider implementations.
• Strong understanding of continuous integration concepts and tooling, preferably with hands on experience designing or implementing portions of CI/CD pipelines, and integrating such pipelines with source code and container image scans etc.
• Experience designing and implementing containerized infrastructure logging and observability technologies, such as Splunk, Fluentd/Fluentbit, Prometheus, Grafana, Wavefront.