Senior Container Platform Engineer

Charles Schwab Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation is seeking a Senior Container Platform Engineer to join the Infrastructure Platforms team. You will design, automate, and support PCF/Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift environments that enable application teams to deploy workloads at scale.

You will influence platform architecture, lifecycle planning, automation, and production support. Expect collaboration across Linux, networking, storage, and security, plus an on-call rotation to support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in platform or infrastructure engineering with senior responsibilities.
• 4+ years building and supporting PCF, Tanzu, or OpenShift in production.
• Hands-on experience managing on-prem container platforms with high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge including cluster architecture, security, identity integration, and observability.
• Proficiency in automation using Python/Go/Java/C# and CI/CD with GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, and operate container platforms for scale.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure platform reliability.
• Support production workloads and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Drive platform improvements, lifecycle planning, and engineering standards.

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

OpenShift

PCF/Tanzu

Linux admin

Automation

GitOps

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

PCF/Tanzu Platform

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

We are seeking a Senior Container Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platforms organization, helping build and operate resilient, secure, and repeatable enterprise container platforms across Schwab’s on-premises data centers. You will design, automate, optimize, and support PCF/Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift environments that enable application teams to deploy and operate containerized workloads at scale.

As a senior technical contributor, you will influence platform architecture, engineering standards, lifecycle planning, automation, and complex production support. You will solve issues spanning Linux, compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and observability while partnering across application, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams. Success requires strong technical judgment, problem solving, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to turn production lessons into lasting platform improvements. This role participates in an on-call production support rotation.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical work experience.


• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, software development, or infrastructure automation, including senior-level responsibility for production platforms.


• 4+ years of hands-on experience building, administering, upgrading, and supporting enterprise PCF, Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenShift, or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms in production.


• Significant hands-on experience managing container platforms hosted in on-premises data centers.


• Demonstrated experience with production platform architecture and operations, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, capacity management, patching, upgrades, security remediation, and lifecycle planning.


• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and container platform concepts, including cluster architecture, operators, scheduling, ingress, service discovery, persistent storage, registries, secrets, certificates, identity integration, and policy enforcement.


• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills across operating systems, containers, networks, storage, and distributed platform services.


• Experience developing production-quality automation or software using Python, C#, Java, Go, or a comparable modern language, including APIs, scripting, automated testing, and source control.


• Experience with Git-based delivery, continuous integration/continuous delivery, GitOps, declarative configuration, and infrastructure or configuration-as-code practices.


• Experience implementing observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and actionable service health indicators.


• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems, make sound decisions in ambiguous situations, communicate tradeoffs, influence cross-functional partners, and lead work from design through stable production operation.


• Ability and willingness to participate in an on-call production support rotation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with both PCF or Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift in large, regulated, on-premises environments.


• Experience with OpenShift GitOps or Argo CD, Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security, OpenShift Pipelines, Quay, Concourse, or comparable platform management and delivery tooling.


• Experience with Ansible Automation Platform and platform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, application onboarding, and remediation automation.


• Experience integrating container platforms with VMware vSphere or other enterprise virtualization, software‑defined networking, enterprise storage, load balancers, DNS, PKI, identity providers, secrets management, and security tooling.


• Experience with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry-compatible tooling, or similar enterprise observability platforms.


• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud supporting hybrid-cloud evaluation and future platform planning.


• Relevant certifications such as Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift, Kubernetes CKA or CKS, or Tanzu and Cloud Foundry certifications.


• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.


• Experience mentoring engineers and developing durable runbooks, reference architectures, engineering standards, support procedures, and reusable platform patterns.

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.