OpenShift Platform Engineer

This role offers a hybrid work schedule; offering the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while providing the opportunity for in-person collaboration. This role could be considered for remote work.

At M&T Tech, we’re a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking.  We’re not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we’re an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks.  We’re building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better.  Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow’s bank, today.

The Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Team engineers and supports all the foundational technology used across M&T Bank.  We support two Data Centers, 15,000 Distributed platforms, 24 Mainframe Regions, a secure and reliable Network connecting all the technology across the bank footprint and process approximately 635,000 automated jobs per month.  In addition to that foundational technology level, we own the operational support processes, monitoring and command center that provide a unified, well-managed technology response when issues arise.    We deliver innovative, and compelling technology solutions, in partnership with our line of business CIOs, to enhance the internal customer experience that enables our business partners to deliver.

Overview:

M&T Bank is seeking an experienced OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to join a team managing and

maintaining the bank’s container platform. This person should bring expert knowledge of the

OpenShift/Kubernetes platform and best practices for cluster deployments to the team. A large part

of this role will be playing with the latest and greatest technologies and making recommendations

on how to take advantage of them. An ideal candidate should have excellent technical credentials,

experience in containers, networking, storage, compute, cloud infrastructure design and

implementation, and excellent communication skills.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Automate the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the bank’s OpenShift clusters

• through the creation and deployment of custom pipelines

• Participate in the review of new cluster configurations and pipelines to ensure they achieve

• their intended result in a non-disruptive manner

• Identify, recommend, and implement upgrades and enhancements required to maintain

• system functionality and optimal performance

• Lead efforts in infrastructure automation and continuous deployment utilizing a CI/CD

• pipeline in a private virtualized environment

• Document any new services or infrastructure being deployed as well as ensuring that current

• documentation remains accurate and follows best practices

• Work closely with Technology management, senior Engineers, and support teams on a

• regular basis to implement and manage the design, development, and execution of technical

• solutions that meet or exceed current and future needs of the organization

• Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research, and

• development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies,

• thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system

• integration, and user acceptance testing

• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers, technicians, and integrators

• Maintain a strong aptitude and working knowledge of Bank applications, systems,

• development environments, and vendor technologies in use

• Seek to expand knowledge and understanding of Financial Services trends, practices, and

• technologies on a continuous basis

• Coordinate vendor interactions and support tickets when required

• Follow and promote use of industry best practices, standards, and procedures

• Complete other related duties as assigned

Education and Experience Required:

• Combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience

• 2 years experience managing OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters

• Strong understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and

• architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Managing Information

• Systems, or other related field of study

• 8 years’ professional experience in a technical engineering position involving infrastructure

• design technologies, data management and interchange, system design and/or development

• for complex applications

• Ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into structured, high quality

• implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Expert knowledge and experience with container technologies using OpenShift/Kubernetes

• and Podman/Docker (build, configure, support)

• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and how to configure them

• Ability to write sustainable scripts using a language such as Python, Perl, or Bash

• Experience with automation and creating Ansible playbooks and/or Terraform HCL

• Advanced knowledge of Azure services, specifically Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and

• Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

• In-depth experience using GitOps (ArgoCD) to configuring and maintaining Kubernetes

• clusters at scale

We support our team members with generous benefits. 

• Competitive compensation 

• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits 

• 401(k) match at 5% 

• Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements 

• Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays  

• 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year 

• Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview 

About M&T

M&T Bank is a Top 20 US bank holding company and one of the best performing and financial stable regional banks in the country, we offer our technology employees a wide range of performance-based career development opportunities. We have a strong commitment to our customers and the communities we serve, and we continue to grow with a focus on the future. So, when looking to advance your career, look to M&T. Grow with us.

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