Remote SRE: Kubernetes/OpenShift Production Reliability

Socket.dev; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MOTIVE is seeking an experienced Managed Services SRE to deploy, operate, and maintain customer applications on Linux bare metal servers and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters in a live production environment. The role emphasizes deployment, release management, reliability, and automation.

You will participate in on-call rotations, night-time deployments, and incident response, carrying pager on rotation while aiming to meet SLA targets and continuously improve observability and tooling.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years Linux system administration experience.
• 5+ years Kubernetes (K8s) experience and exposure to Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience with application servers such as JBoss or WebLogic.
• Experience with monitoring: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with logging pipelines: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK).
• Exposure to web servers (Apache, Nginx) and Ansible.
• Strong troubleshooting in a live production environment.
• Willingness to carry pager for on-call rotations and night deployments.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and maintain applications on Linux bare metal servers and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Execute CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable releases across hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix.
• Maintain centralized logging with Grafana Loki, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Fluentd/Fluent Bit.
• Develop automation scripts in Bash, Python, and JavaScript.
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting in live production environments.
• Support night deployments and pager-based on-call rotations; weekends/holidays as needed.
• Collaborate with internal teams to improve deployment reliability and efficiency.

Skills

Linux system administration

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Web servers

Ansible

Bash

Python

JavaScript

Incident response

Troubleshooting

Tools

OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Apache

Nginx

Job description

MOTIVE is seeking an experienced Managed Services SRE to deploy, operate, and maintain customer applications on Linux bare metal servers and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters in a live production environment. The role emphasizes deployment, release management, reliability, and automation.

You will participate in on-call rotations, night-time deployments, and incident response, carrying pager on rotation while aiming to meet SLA targets and continuously improve observability and tooling.