The Infrastructure Lead will own the end-to-end stewardship of the OpenShift container platform and underlying Kubernetes ecosystem, ensuring platform resilience, security compliance, and operational excellence. The role requires strong cross-functional engagement with internal infrastructure teams and external counterparts, notably GIPS stakeholders, while maintaining rigorous governance across patching, vulnerability management, and lifecycle operations.
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for the OpenShift container platform, including Kubernetes cluster management across development, testing, and production environments
- Oversee containerized application hosting, infrastructure capacity planning, and platform scalability
- Manage batch processing workloads and scheduled updates within containerized and hybrid infrastructure landscapes
- Ensure seamless integration and operational stability across applications, infrastructure, and platform services
- Drive standardization and automation for deployments, upgrades, and operational runbooks
- Partner with application teams to enable reliable, secure, and performant workloads on Kubernetes
- Own end-to-end patch management processes, including post-patch vulnerability validation and remediation
- Lead ongoing infrastructure patch maintenance covering OS, container runtime, Kubernetes, and OpenShift components
- Proactively manage hardware, security, and platform vulnerabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise security policies and regulatory expectations
- Act as the primary escalation point for infra-related security incidents and audit findings
- Provide oversight on infrastructure cost management, capacity utilization, and financial optimization
- Support balance sheet governance through effective asset lifecycle management, cost controls, and infrastructure investment planning
- Act as the key liaison with infrastructure counterparts across the organization, with a strong emphasis on coordination with GIPS teams
- Drive alignment across internal infra, security, and operations teams to ensure cohesive delivery
- Manage vendor relationships related to platform, hardware, and tooling support
- Ensure infrastructure operations adhere to enterprise standards, risk controls, and compliance frameworks
- Identify opportunities for operational efficiency, resilience improvement, and technology uplift within the container and infrastructure stack
- Contribute to infrastructure roadmaps and strategic initiatives
Requirements
- Proven experience leading enterprise infrastructure platforms, with deep expertise in OpenShift and Kubernetes
- Strong hands-on knowledge of container orchestration, platform lifecycle management, and batch workload handling
- Demonstrated experience in patch management, security vulnerability remediation, and infrastructure risk management
- Solid understanding of hardware, OS, container, and platform-level vulnerabilities
- Experience working in regulated or large financial services environments is highly preferred
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience liaising across regional or group infrastructure teams
- Financial acumen with exposure to infrastructure cost management and balance sheet considerations
