Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer at MetLife Cary, NC

Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer job y, NC.

The Container Platform Team is responsible for supporting Container Platforms, specifically for Open Shift Container Platform, hosting a fleet of Kubernetes clusters, with multitenancy and Hybrid considerations. The team proactively assesses the overall health of systems, performance, and incident trending reports and develops automation to facilitate self-serviceability, address system resilience and stability by using site reliability engineering principles and practices.

The Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering role for the Container Platform teams is responsible for advancing cloud native technologies that align specifically to our On-premises and regulatory system strategy. This role and team support multiple countries and are responsible for designing and maintaining the Open Shift Platform standards globally. This is an exciting role that will exercise a working knowledge of varying application frameworks running on various platforms, physical and virtual environments, with portability capabilities to effectively run on different cloud providers, hypervisors, operating systems, Network devices, Storage devices, and Database servers.

This position supports critical business activity within a 24/7 Servicing Dev Ops agile team. Must align with Agile methodology, understand the ITSM process, operations data, and real-time visibility requirements, and how each interacts with the operation of complex production environments. We are looking for an individual who can lead develop concise solutions for complex ideas within the Kubernetes and microservice domain.

Exercising critical thinking, collaborate effectively across teams, and have an automation-first mindset, with a desire to work with modernized and often transformational workforce toolsets and methods. Success in this role requires Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices while exhibiting a continuous learning mindset. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for accelerating agile delivery by adopting a platform-oriented Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) operating model while driving automation with Infrastructure as Code as the cornerstone approach to enabling this.

You'll collaborate closely with an array of global colleagues and customers at all levels in an environment where every contribution is respected, and every perspective is heard.

• Exhibits the skills to collaborate with and achieve actionable results, build healthy and sustainable relationships, and the capability to interact within all levels of the organization.
• Working experience in Open Shift, K8s distros and Docker.
• Lead the coordination, check, and apply critical patches in Open Shift/Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD methodology and tooling (AzDo, GIT, Tekton).
• Manage the container platform ecosystem (installation, upgrade, patching, monitoring).
• Reliability Management mindset / Troubleshooting.
• Takes lead role in projects and provides technical expertise for integrating products and technologies.
• Leads and participates in incident analysis and provides root cause updates to management.
• Provides SME knowledge in enterprise-wide projects or initiatives.
• Exhibits an automation-first mindset.
• Works with peers in Global Technology to ensure the stability and performance of the infrastructure.
• Develops ongoing relationships and routines with industry partners and vendors regarding thought leadership, industry trends, product directions, and required product enhancements.
• Has responsibility for operations, participation in the evaluation of new and existing software products, and integrations.
• Willing to work in rotational shifts and occasionally serve in rotation on-call capacity.
• Provides technical guidance and mentors team members.
• Manages service levels provided by the managed service provider.

• 5+ years of overall experience as an infrastructure engineer.
• Good working knowledge of "Infra-as-code" toolsets such as Ansible.
• Python and shell scripting experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes distros, containerization, Linux / UNIX technologies.
• Proven experience in supporting distributed applications in the cloud (Including Azure, AWS, and/or GCP).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or ten years of equivalent work experience.

• Container Runtimes (Podman / Docker), Kubernetes (Open Shift) / Swarm Orchestration, Terraform and GoLang framework, and/or Microservices Architecture.
• Experience administering and supporting Open Shift.
• Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and exhibits a continuous learning mindset.
• Experience with on-premises cloud platforms preferred.
• Good knowledge of using GIT / AzDo / Tekton and related Version Control tools.
• Good working knowledge of Observability / Monitoring toolsets such as Grafana, ELK…