Technology And Data - Engineer 5 - Contingent

Consulting Engineer

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel.

In this role, you will:

• Own the operational health, lifecycle, and governance of Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.
• Lead major incidents, coordinate cross team response, ensure timely restoration, manage communication, and drive root-cause and permanent corrective action.
• Lead initiatives to enhance resilience, reduce platform incidents, eliminate recurring issues, and increase automation maturity.
• Direct automation strategy for run operations, leveraging Python, GitOps, AI-assisted tooling, or self service workflows to reduce manual effort.
• Lead OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities, including new cluster builds, configuration, onboarding, upgrades, and cluster decommissioning, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance across environments.
• Influence engineering, security, and development teams to adopt consistent operational patterns, guardrails, and readiness practices.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory, security, and audit requirements; maintain strong operational hygiene and documentation.
• Guide other team members, develop skill maturity, and strengthen operational best practices across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• 8+ year's experience in Systems Operations, Cloud Operations, SRE, or related operational roles.
• 6+ years in Kubernetes/OpenShift platform operations.
• 4+ years Linux systems operations experience.
• Experience leading operational teams or platform operations functions.
• Strong record of operational automation and incident leadership.

EEO: "Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans."