Director, Container Engineering and Operations

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ or Omaha, NE

Hybrid: 4 days on-site, 1 day remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience of leading a team consisting of senior technology and architects.
• 2+ 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).
• 3+ years of experience building and supporting distributed computing environments.
• Proficiency in Linux and/or Windows systems.
• Demonstrated competency in a programming/Scripting language.
• 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.
• Demonstrated understanding of Cybersecurity threats and mitigating controls.
• Demonstrated understanding of Public Key Infrastructure.
• Experience with cert-manager on Kubernetes is a plus.

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.