Senior Container Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Senior Container Platform Engineer to design, automate, and operate resilient container platforms across Schwab’s on‑prem data centers. You will shape PCF/Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and OpenShift environments, enabling teams to deploy containerized workloads at scale.

You will influence platform architecture, lifecycle planning, and production support across Linux, compute, networking, storage, identity, and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in platform/infra engineering or related fields.
• 4+ years with enterprise PCF/Tanzu/OpenShift in production.
• Hands-on with on-prem container platforms and high-availability systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster architecture, operators, ingress, storage, and security.

Responsibilities

• Influence platform architecture and engineering standards.
• Lead lifecycle planning, automation, and production support.
• Solve cross‑functional problems spanning Linux, networking, storage, identity, and observability.
• Contribute to on-call production support rotations.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Automation

Python

Go

Java

C#

GitOps

CI/CD

OpenShift

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

PCF/Tanzu Platform

OpenShift

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.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan


• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28‑day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions


• Paid parental leave and family building benefits


• Tuition reimbursement


• Health, dental, and vision insurance