Senior Kubernetes & Virtualization Architect

theocc; United States; Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (up to 2 days remote)

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Technology stipend

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a senior virtualization and cloud-native architect who will design and support large-scale infrastructure, automation, and security enhancements across VMware VSphere, OCP, and container platforms. You will lead development of scalable IaC, REST API integrations, and cloud-native developer environments.

You will collaborate with IT and security leaders to align requirements, drive innovation, and ensure reliable DR testing, with up to 40%

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field with at least 5 years of experience in software development, solutions architecture, or related roles.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable infrastructure-as-code for bare-metal and virtualized environments including storage integrations.
• Proven ability to design cloud-native REST APIs and automate end-to-end pipelines across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes infra.

Responsibilities

• Design and support virtualization environments (VMware VSphere, OCP) and compute architectures.
• Develop baselines, assess vulnerabilities, and remediate security findings.
• Automate infrastructure life cycle and software-defined storage integrations.
• Create cloud-native developer platforms with IDE images and automated deployments (DevSpaces, OpenShift, ArgoCD).
• Build event-driven messaging integrations (KubeVirt, IBM MQ) and migration strategies between VMware and OCP.
• Coordinate with business and security leaders to gather requirements and communicate changes.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

REST API Integration

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Automation Frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

VMware VSphere

Red Hat Satellite

ACM Cloudian CSI drivers

IBM MQ

Jenkins

Ansible

Gradle

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a senior virtualization and cloud-native architect who will design and support large-scale infrastructure, automation, and security enhancements across VMware VSphere, OCP, and container platforms. You will lead development of scalable IaC, REST API integrations, and cloud-native developer environments.

You will collaborate with IT and security leaders to align requirements, drive innovation, and ensure reliable DR testing, with up to 40%