OpenShift Platform Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid (Remote/Onsite)
• Job Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not specified

M&T Bank is seeking an experienced OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to join a team managing and maintaining the bank’s container platform. This role offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while providing the opportunity for in-person collaboration.

At M&T Tech, we’re a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking. We’re not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we’re an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks. We’re building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better. Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow’s bank, today.

The Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Team engineers and supports all the foundational technology used across M&T Bank. We support two Data Centers, 15,000 Distributed platforms, 24 Mainframe Regions, a secure and reliable Network connecting all the technology across the bank footprint and process approximately 635,000 automated jobs per month. In addition to that foundational technology level, we own the operational support processes, monitoring and command center that provide a unified, well-managed technology response when issues arise. We deliver innovative, and compelling technology solutions, in partnership with our line of business CIOs, to enhance the internal customer experience that enables our business partners to deliver.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of the OpenShift/Kubernetes platform and best practices for cluster deployments.
• Experience in containers, networking, storage, compute, cloud infrastructure design and implementation.
• Excellent technical credentials.
• Experience in a private virtualized environment.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Automate the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the bank’s OpenShift cluster through the creation and deployment of custom pipelines.
• Participate in the review of new cluster configurations and pipelines to ensure they achieve their intended result in a non-disruptive manner.
• Identify, recommend, and implement upgrades and enhancements required to maintain system functionality and optimal performance.
• Lead efforts in infrastructure automation and continuous deployment utilizing a CI/CD pipeline.
• Document any new services or infrastructure being deployed as well as ensuring that current documentation remains accurate and follows best practices.
• Work closely with Technology Infrastructure teams to implement and maintain the platform.