[Hiring] OpenShift Platform Engineer @M&T Bank

Role Description

M&T Bank is seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to help design, operate, secure, and continuously improve its enterprise container platform. This senior individual-contributor role is responsible for complex platform engineering initiatives across OpenShift and hybrid-cloud environments, including:

• Cluster lifecycle management
• Automation
• Reliability
• Security
• Observability
• Developer enablement

The engineer will independently lead technical work from design through production implementation, troubleshoot complex cross-domain problems, establish reusable engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

• Combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
• Strong understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design
• Demonstrated proficiency administering and supporting production OpenShift or Kubernetes environments
• Strong troubleshooting experience across Linux, containers, networking, storage, compute, identity, and distributed application platforms
• Hands-on experience automating infrastructure or platform operations using scripting, configuration management, infrastructure as code, GitOps, or CI/CD practices
• Working knowledge of Git-based development, peer review, testing, and controlled change-management practices
• A proven record of independently leading complex technical work, evaluating constraints and risks, and delivering high-quality production implementations with limited supervision
• Demonstrated success translating business, security, operational, and technical requirements into maintainable platform solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical designs, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly
• Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing technical designs, automation, documentation, or production changes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field (preferred)
• Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift in a large, multi-cluster production environment (preferred)
• Expertise with managed Kubernetes environments, specifically Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), and/or Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) (preferred)
• Linux systems administration experience and familiarity with container technologies such as Podman or Docker (preferred)
• Experience implementing GitOps and continuous delivery using Argo CD or a comparable platform (preferred)
• Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, or Bash (preferred)
• Knowledge of observability platforms and practices spanning metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and capacity analysis (preferred)
• Knowledge of container security, including vulnerability management, image governance, policy enforcement, and security baseline management (preferred)
• Experience designing or supporting self-service platform capabilities and application-team onboarding (preferred)
• Professional experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment (preferred)

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD)
• The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation
• The range listed corresponds to our national pay range for this role
• The specific pay range applicable to you may vary based on your location

Success in This Role

The successful engineer will improve the platform by:

• Reducing manual work
• Increasing reliability and security
• Simplifying application onboarding
• Strengthening engineering standards
• Delivering sustainable solutions that other engineers and application teams can confidently operate and reuse