The OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer will manage the bank's container platform, automate deployments, ensure performance, and mentor team members. Experience in infrastructure design and cloud technologies required.
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.Overview:M&T Bank is seeking an experienced OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to join a team managing and maintaining the bank’s container platform. This person should bring expert knowledge of the OpenShift/Kubernetes platform and best practices for cluster deployments to the team. A large part of this role will be playing with the latest and greatest technologies and making recommendations on how to take advantage of them. An ideal candidate should have excellent technical credentials, experience in containers, networking, storage, computer, cloud infrastructure design and implementation, and excellent communication skills.Primary Responsibilities:
- Automate the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the bank’s OpenShift clusters 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 in a private virtualized environment
- 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 management, senior Engineers, and support teams on a regular basis to implement and manage the design, development, and execution of technical solutions that meet or exceed current and future needs of the organization
- Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research, and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing
- Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers, technicians, and integrators
- Maintain a strong aptitude and working knowledge of Bank applications, systems, development environments, and vendor technologies in use
- Seek to expand knowledge and understanding of Financial Services trends, practices, and technologies on a continuous basis
- Coordinate vendor interactions and support tickets when required
- Follow and promote use of industry best practices, standards, and procedures
- Complete other related duties as assigned
- Combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
- Experience with container technologies using OpenShift/Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Managing Information
- Systems, or other related field of study
- 8 years’ professional experience in a technical engineering position involving infrastructure design technologies, data management and interchange, system design and/or development for complex applications
- Ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into structured, high-quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Expert knowledge and experience with container technologies using OpenShift/Kubernetes and Podman/Docker (build, configure, support)
- In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and how to configure them
- Ability to write sustainable scripts using a language such as Python, Perl, or Bash
- Experience with automation and creating Ansible playbooks and/or Terraform HCL
- Advanced knowledge of Azure services, specifically Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and
- Azure Red Hat Openshift (ARO)
- In-depth experience using GitOps (ArgoCD) to configuring and maintaining Kubernetes
- clusters at scale
- Competitive compensation
- Health, welfare, and retirement benefits
- 401(k) match at 5%
- Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements
- Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays
- 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year
- Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview
Top Skills
Openshift,Kubernetes,Gitops,Argocd,Ansible,Terrraform,Azure,Podman,Docker
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