Lead Associate Principal, Kubernetes Services

theocc; United States; Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (up to 2 days remote)

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Technology stipend

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a senior virtualization and cloud-native architect who will design and support large-scale infrastructure, automation, and security enhancements across VMware VSphere, OCP, and container platforms. You will lead development of scalable IaC, REST API integrations, and cloud-native developer environments.

You will collaborate with IT and security leaders to align requirements, drive innovation, and ensure reliable DR testing, with up to 40%

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field with at least 5 years of experience in software development, solutions architecture, or related roles.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable infrastructure-as-code for bare-metal and virtualized environments including storage integrations.
• Proven ability to design cloud-native REST APIs and automate end-to-end pipelines across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes infra.

Responsibilities

• Design and support virtualization environments (VMware VSphere, OCP) and compute architectures.
• Develop baselines, assess vulnerabilities, and remediate security findings.
• Automate infrastructure life cycle and software-defined storage integrations.
• Create cloud-native developer platforms with IDE images and automated deployments (DevSpaces, OpenShift, ArgoCD).
• Build event-driven messaging integrations (KubeVirt, IBM MQ) and migration strategies between VMware and OCP.
• Coordinate with business and security leaders to gather requirements and communicate changes.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

REST API Integration

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Automation Frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

VMware VSphere

Red Hat Satellite

ACM Cloudian CSI drivers

IBM MQ

Jenkins

Ansible

Gradle

Job description

Duties

Responsible for the Virtualization environment design, support, and automation. Provide operational support for the existing and future Virtualization and computing and VDI architectures. Design solutions to support existing and future services and enhance security posture. Provide advanced support to UCS - VMWare environment. Support VXRail VDI environment. Develop baselines, evaluate, and remediate vulnerabilities and security findings. Design and develop scalable infrastructure-as-code for bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure life cycle and develop software-defined storage and integration with ACM, Red Hat Satellite, including Infinidat/Cloudian CSI drivers. Design and develop cloud-native REST API integrations and integrate automation frameworks for end-to-end pipeline execution and validation across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes based infrastructure using Gradle, Quest, and Jenkins or Ansible. Design and develop cloud-native developer platform environments by building custom IDE configurations, developing out-of-box workspace images (RStudio, JMeter, and Chrome), and automating deployments using DevSpaces, OpenShift, and ArgoCD. Design and formulate the virtualization strategies for VMWare VSphere and OCP, migration strategies between VMWare and OCP and event-driven messaging integrations using OCP Virtualization, KubeVirt, and IBM MQ. Meet with Business, IT and Security Leaders to develop requirements and communicate changes to the environment. Challenge the status quo with new ideas and drive innovation in the Virtualization environment. Apply comprehensive knowledge of concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments. Automate processes in the VMWare environment. Troubleshoot production problems like performance, and runtime issues within the virtualization environment. Address problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms. Evaluate and recommend application integration and testing tools. Provide Disaster Recovery testing support. Provide on-call support according to assigned schedule. Document changes, policies and procedures and drawings. Contribute to projects of various sizes and schedules. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. OCC offers a standard benefits package. *This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation's Employee Referral Program.*

Education & Experience Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related and five (5) years of experience as a software developer, solutions architect, lead developer, or related

Special Skills Required

• Must have work experience with each of the following: 1) Design and develop scalable infrastructure-as-code for bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure life cycle and develop software-defined storage and integration with ACM, Red Hat Satellite, including Infinidat/Cloudian CSI drivers;
• 2) Design and develop cloud-native REST API integrations and integrate automation frameworks for end-to-end pipeline execution and validation across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes based infrastructure using Gradle, Quest, and Jenkins or Ansible;
• 3) Design and develop cloud-native developer platform environments by building custom IDE configurations, developing out-of-box workspace images (RStudio, JMeter, and Chrome), and automating deployments using DevSpaces, OpenShift, and ArgoCD;
• 4) Design and formulate the virtualization strategies for VMWare VSphere and OCP, migration strategies between VMWare and OCP and event-driven messaging integrations using OCP Virtualization, KubeVirt, and IBM MQ.

Salary

$169,000-$199,400

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness.

Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect

EOE.