Platform Engineer - AI Observability & Governance (OpenShift)

Bank of America Corporation; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 103,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Bank of America seeks an experienced platform engineer to operate enterprise vendor platforms in a Red Hat OpenShift environment. You will own deployment, configuration, reliability, and day-to-day support of a self-hosted AI observability platform for GenAI applications across the bank, with storage and databases managed on OpenShift or Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in platform engineering, hands-on production experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes, and strong Linux, automation,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software, systems, or platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience deploying workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with stateful services (PostgreSQL, Redis) and storage/recovery.
• Experience supporting enterprise platforms end to end, including vendor escalations.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Helm, container registries, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting/automation experience (Python, Bash).
• Observability tools experience (Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Security controls, SSO/OAuth, RBAC, and audit capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, upgrade, and support vendor apps on OpenShift with CI/CD.
• Manage namespaces, quotas, storage, networking, and policies.
• Operate stateful services and ensure data backup/restoration.
• Plan capacity, data retention, and storage growth for trace data.
• Onboard container images and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Build/maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (Splunk, Grafana).
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Enforce security controls including TLS, secrets, and SSO/OAuth.
• Support governance, data docs, access reviews, and risk evidence.
• Design high availability, backup, and DR procedures.
• Automate builds, deployments, and runbooks; mentor engineers.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

Agile

SRE mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

Grafana

Job description

Job Description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description

This role engineers and operates enterprise vendor platforms in our on-premises Red Hat OpenShift environment. You will own the deployment, configuration, reliability, and day-to-day support of a self-hosted AI observability platform that provides tracing, monitoring, and evaluation for GenAI applications across the bank. The platform runs as a set of containerized services backed by stateful data stores, so experience operating databases and storage on OpenShift or Kubernetes is central to the role.

This is a platform and systems engineering role, not a model development role. The focus is keeping a business-critical, third-party platform secure, stable, performant, and compliant as trace volumes and adoption grow. You will work closely with the vendor, OpenShift platform teams, information security, data governance, and the application teams that consume the service.

Exposure to AI tooling is helpful, but what matters most is a track record of running enterprise platforms in production. The ideal engineer is hands-on, comfortable owning production issues end to end, picks up new tools quickly, and can lead cross-functional work to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, upgrade, and support vendor applications on on-premises OpenShift using Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage OpenShift namespaces, resource quotas, storage classes, networking, routes, and network policies.
• Deploy and operate stateful backing services (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, object storage), including persistent storage, replication, backup and restore, and encryption at rest.
• Plan capacity and manage data retention and storage growth for high-volume trace and telemetry data.
• Onboard vendor container images and Helm charts into internal registries and drive remediation of image vulnerability findings.
• Build and maintain infrastructure and application monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes; manage vendor escalations through resolution.
• Implement and maintain security controls, including TLS certificates, secrets management, SSO/OAuth integration, and access management workflows.
• Support governance and control requirements, including audit logging, data documentation, access reviews, and evidence for technology risk reviews.
• Design, document, and test high availability, backup, and disaster recovery/contingency procedures.
• Automate environment builds, deployments, and code promotion across development, test, and production; create and maintain runbooks.
• Support application teams onboarding to the platform and troubleshoot integration issues (APIs, authentication, connectivity).
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering standards across internal, offshore, and vendor teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, MIS, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software, systems, or platform engineering experience supporting production applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads on Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes in production.
• Experience running stateful services on OpenShift or Kubernetes, such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or analytical databases, including storage, backup, and recovery.
• Experience supporting third-party/vendor enterprise platforms end to end, including installs, upgrades, patching, and vendor escalations.
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Helm, container registries, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience with infrastructure and application observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Working knowledge of enterprise security controls, including TLS certificates and trust stores, secrets management, encryption, SSO/OAuth, and role-based access.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and stakeholder influence.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience delivering technology solutions in large, complex, regulated organizations, preferably financial services.
• Experience operating ClickHouse or other high-volume analytical/time-series data stores.
• Experience supporting technology risk, audit, or data governance requirements for production platforms.
• Experience supporting platforms used by GenAI/LLM applications, or familiarity with LLM tracing, evaluation, or AI observability tools.
• Familiarity with LLM application frameworks (e.g., LangChain) or OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Experience with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to quickly learn emerging technologies.

Skills

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency details

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Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.