Senior OpenShift & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 112,700 - 193,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

401k contribution

Equity stock purchase

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Senior OpenShift Kubernetes Administrator to lead our on-prem OpenShift platforms. You will engineer, automate, and operate enterprise-scale environments powering healthcare applications with a focus on reliability and security.

You will collaborate with teams to improve observability, scalability, and performance, driving platform modernization and automation initiatives across multiple data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years administering Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
• Experience with Ansible and automation frameworks.
• Experience with container technologies and image creation.
• Experience troubleshooting enterprise-scale platform issues.
• Experience deploying and administering OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).
• Experience with monitoring/logging/alerting using Grafana/Prometheus/Loki/AlertManager/Thanos.
• Experience with Git Actions pipelines for OpenShift and bash scripting using oc.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise OpenShift Kubernetes platforms deployed to HPC infrastructure.
• Manage large-scale OpenShift clusters using OpenShift Console, OpenShift CLI, ACM, and automation tools.
• Design and implement automated deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management solutions.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks using Ansible and scripting.
• Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, container, networking, and platform issues.
• Collaborate with developers to improve application reliability, observability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement enterprise security controls and platform hardening standards.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-cluster architectures.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives and automation-driven operations.
• Participate in architecture reviews to shape future enterprise container platforms.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

OpenShift expertise

Shell scripting

Python or Go

Linux administration

Security and hardening

Observability & monitoring

GitOps & CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Red Hat OpenShift certification

Tools

OpenShift Console

OpenShift CLI (oc)

ACM

Terraform/Ansible

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki/AlertManager/Thanos

Job description

Optum is seeking a Senior OpenShift Kubernetes Administrator to lead our on-prem OpenShift platforms. You will engineer, automate, and operate enterprise-scale environments powering healthcare applications with a focus on reliability and security.

You will collaborate with teams to improve observability, scalability, and performance, driving platform modernization and automation initiatives across multiple data centers.