Remote SRE: Kubernetes/OpenShift Reliability & Automation

Advantage 360; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MOTIVE is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer- Application Development to deploy, operate, and maintain customer applications on Linux bare metal and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters. You will drive CI/CD, reliability, and automation in a live production environment.

The role includes on-call nights, pager rotation, and support across remote environments in the US. Strong troubleshooting, collaboration, and scripting skills are essential for day-to-day operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years Linux system administration experience.
• Minimum 5 years Kubernetes (K8s) experience.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift is a plus.
• Hands-on work with application servers such as JBoss or WebLogic.
• Experience with monitoring tools: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with logging pipelines: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK).
• Experience with web servers: Apache, Nginx.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Basic networking and SQL skills.
• Strong troubleshooting in a live production environment.
• Willingness to carry pager and support night deployments and off-hours.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and maintain customer applications on Linux bare metal servers and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Execute CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable, repeatable releases across hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Zabbix.
• Implement centralized logging with Grafana Loki, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Fluentd/Fluent Bit.
• Develop automation scripts (Bash, Python, JavaScript) to streamline deployments.
• Participate in incident response and troubleshoot issues in production.
• Support night-time deployments and pager rotations on a rotating schedule.
• Collaborate with internal teams to improve deployment reliability and efficiency.

Skills

Linux admin

Kubernetes

On-call experience

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

OpenShift

JBoss

WebLogic

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Logstash

Kibana

Fluentd/Fluent Bit

Apache

Nginx

Ansible

Job description

MOTIVE is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer- Application Development to deploy, operate, and maintain customer applications on Linux bare metal and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters. You will drive CI/CD, reliability, and automation in a live production environment.

The role includes on-call nights, pager rotation, and support across remote environments in the US. Strong troubleshooting, collaboration, and scripting skills are essential for day-to-day operations.