About the position
The Senior Open Shift Engineer at Delta Air Lines, Inc. is responsible for assisting with application migrations to Delta's containerized Platform-as-a-Service offering. This role involves engineering, support, and thought leadership related to the platform, automation, and other related activities. The engineer will implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, assist application teams with onboarding to the OpenShift platform, and serve as a subject matter expert on the OpenShift platform.
Responsibilities
- Assist with application migrations to Delta's containerized Platform-as-a-Service offering. ,
- Involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to the platform, automation, and other related activities. ,
- Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, focusing on application concerns including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines. ,
- Assist application teams with onboarding to the OpenShift platform, including managing resource requirements, capacity analysis, and troubleshooting support. ,
- Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its components to those less familiar. ,
- Build, test, and administer highly available RedHat OpenShift Container Platform clusters. ,
- Work with vendors to develop solutions, feature enhancements, and define technical infrastructure environment specific to the organization. ,
- Work with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integrations with other internal systems. ,
- Monitor hardware, VM, and container metrics for maintaining cluster health and identifying thresholds for scaling. ,
- Develop and automate repeatable tasks. ,
- Consult with development users to determine requirements and recommend solutions. ,
- Assist with the configuration and maintenance of interfaces for related tool integrations. ,
- Perform tuning of infrastructure components. ,
- Review project deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards. ,
- Document and communicate the status of progress against plans, taking corrective action if necessary. ,
- Identify, clarify, and resolve project activity issues and risks, escalating as needed. ,
- Uphold enterprise policy guidelines and recommend new and improved guidelines as appropriate. ,
- Partner with architects to design and engineer solutions for internal customers.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, and 2 years of experience in Containerization or related. ,
- Experience in planning and automating highly available OpenShift clusters lifecycle including build, upgrade, and delegation in AWS and on-premises data centers. ,
- Experience in automating OpenShift cluster lifecycle in AWS using CloudFormation, Lambda, and Step functions. ,
- Experience in planning and automating Ansible Tower environment lifecycle and supporting teams on Ansible Playbook development for automating CI/CD and on-premises infrastructure lifecycle management. ,
- Experience in developing and publishing pipeline examples for Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD for application build, test, and deployments. ,
- Experience in developing GitOps based solution to manage Kubernetes objects and Argo CD application using Git and GitLab. ,
- Experience in developing, updating, and publishing HELM charts for deploying Kubernetes and OpenShift infrastructure resources using Argo applications. ,
- Experience in developing custom dashboards and implementing alerting and logging solutions for the OpenShift clusters.
Nice-to-haves
- Airline experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives ,
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9% ,
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave ,
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits ,
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages ,
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health ,
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members ,
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint ,
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together ,
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies ,
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks.