Business Technology Mgr Sr Kubernetes Caas Platform

Business Technology Manager Sr.

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success. As a Business Technology Manager Sr.,

within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Dallas TX. PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position. We are looking for an accomplished and experienced Business Technology Manager Sr. leader to lead the day-to-day operations of our enterprise Kubernetes-based container orchestration platforms. This role serves as a link between technical engineering teams and business stakeholders, ensuring scalable infrastructure solutions are developed, maintained, and widely adopted while prioritizing user experience.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in shaping the Day-2 operations strategic direction, defining the roadmap, and facilitating adoption of container hosting platforms across both on-premises and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Leadership:
  Maintain highly resilient, secure, and scalable containerized infrastructure
• Performance Optimization:
  Oversees product metrics to enhance the performance, usability, and reliability of containerized workloads across various environments
• Upgrades & Maintenance:
  Execute seamless, zero-downtime Day-2 operations, including Kubernetes minor/major version rollouts
• Security & Compliance:
  Enforce container security best practices, scan images, secure runtime, enforce policies, vulnerability management, and meet enterprise standards
• Operational Excellence:
  Partner with Dev Ops, security, and networking teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, container runtime environments, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
• Resource Efficiency:
  Prevent cluster over-provisioning by managing resource requests/limits & horizontal/vertical scaling
• Cost Optimization:
  Enhance cluster efficiency and resource management, minimize on-prem / cloud expenses through effective container orchestration, and strengthen system performance and reliability in accordance with SLOs/SLAs
• Incident Response:
  Serve as the escalation lead for production cluster outages, establishing strict root cause analysis (RCA) workflows

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years in technology with extensive experience leading Container Platform Operations teams preferred. Advanced level understanding of customer experience
• 10+ years of expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI), public cloud providers, and platform engineering domains preferred
• Experience in Agile software development environments, preferably with developer platform products
• Strong background in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Dev Ops tooling (e.g., Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Git Ops)
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-prem solutions (Open Shift, bare-metal Kubernetes, etc.)
• Proven ability to build technical strategy and lead in a matrixed organization
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple stakeholders effectively

Preferred

Skills:

Kubernetes Expertise:
Strong understanding of Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload orchestration, networking, RBAC, and security best practices.

Hybrid-Cloud & On-Prem Platforms:
Hands-on knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud environments and experience integrating Kubernetes with enterprise systems.

Agile Practices:
Deep experience with Agile methodologies and backlog/project management tools (e.g., Jira, Rally, ADO).

Licenses and

Certifications:

Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS) strongly preferred Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) a plus