We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of software and automation engineers responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and validating automation solutions for Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes-based environments. This role will focus on cloud-native automation and certification for Oracle 5G Network Functions, F5 Aspen Service Mesh, F5 Service Proxy for Kubernetes, and related web-scale platform components.
The manager will provide both technical leadership and people management, ensuring successful delivery of automation frameworks, deployment pipelines, validation workflows, and platform certification activities. This role requires strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift, telecom cloud-native platforms, 5G network functions, service mesh/proxy technologies, CI/CD automation, observability, and security best practices.
The ideal candidate will be able to guide engineering teams, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, manage project execution, mentor engineers, and drive high-quality automation solutions for complex telecom and web-scale environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers responsible for automation, deployment, certification, and validation of cloud-native telecom platforms.
- Provide technical direction for automation solutions supporting Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, F5 ASM, F5 SPK, Oracle 5G software, and customer-specific web-scale environments.
- Oversee the development of scripts, tools, and frameworks to provision, configure, manage, upgrade, and validate Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
- Drive automation for deployment, configuration, lifecycle management, and upgrade of OpenShift, F5 Aspen Service Mesh, F5 Service Proxy for Kubernetes, and Oracle 5G Network Functions.
- Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, certification workflows, and validation processes for cloud-native 5G environments.
- Manage the use and enhancement of Oracle 5G ATS for certification, regression, deployment validation, and compatibility testing.
- Ensure Oracle 5G Network Functions are validated and certified across Red Hat OpenShift, F5 ASM, F5 SPK, and related platform components.
- Collaborate with architecture, development, QA, DevOps, platform engineering, network engineering, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
- Define engineering priorities, sprint goals, delivery milestones, risk mitigation plans, and execution roadmaps.
- Review technical designs, automation frameworks, test strategies, and implementation plans to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Drive automation for OpenShift cluster lifecycle management, including installation, scaling, upgrades, operators, cluster add-ons, networking, ingress, DNS, certificates, and storage integration.
- Guide the team in implementing service mesh automation, including gateways, routing policies, traffic shifting, mTLS policies, observability integrations, and proxy configurations.
- Ensure proper validation of control-plane and data-plane readiness, traffic flows, failover, resilience, rollback behavior, and platform health checks.
- Promote and standardize observability practices, including metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alerts, SLO-based validation, and performance monitoring.
- Ensure implementation of Kubernetes and OpenShift security best practices, including RBAC, Security Context Constraints, NetworkPolicies, secrets management, image signing, and image scanning.
- Lead end-to-end troubleshooting of deployment, automation, certification, and platform integration issues across OpenShift, service mesh/proxy, and Oracle 5G NF workloads.
- Continuously improve automation reliability, pipeline efficiency, test coverage, deployment repeatability, and operational excellence.
- Support hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, career development, and skill growth of engineering team members.
- Communicate project status, risks, technical challenges, and delivery progress to senior leadership and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, automation engineering, DevOps, cloud-native platforms, telecom platforms, or infrastructure engineering.
- 3+ years of experience leading or managing engineering teams, technical teams, or complex cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
- Strong programming and scripting experience using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience designing, developing, or managing automation frameworks for deployment, validation, certification, or lifecycle management.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Git-based workflows, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with Oracle 5G Network Functions, Oracle 5G software deployment, or telecom network function automation.
- Experience with Oracle 5G ATS or similar test automation and certification frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with F5 Aspen Service Mesh, F5 Service Proxy for Kubernetes, F5 ASM, or similar service mesh, proxy, networking, or security platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerized workloads, and platform integration.
- Knowledge of OpenShift/Kubernetes networking, ingress, DNS, certificates, storage, operators, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Experience troubleshooting complex deployment, automation, platform, networking, or application issues in Kubernetes-based environments.
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage priorities, delivery timelines, risks, dependencies, and engineering execution across multiple workstreams.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, automation, telecom, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams in telecom, cloud-native, DevOps, or web-scale platform environments.
- Experience working in Verizon-specific, telecom-grade, or large-scale web-scale platform environments.
- Extensive experience with F5 Aspen Service Mesh and F5 Service Proxy for Kubernetes.
- Deep knowledge of 5G Core architecture, cloud-native network functions, and telecom network function deployment models.
- Experience with Oracle 5G ATS for automation, certification, regression, and platform validation.
- Experience with container networking technologies, including CNI behavior, Multus, ingress controllers, service mesh networking, and network policy enforcement.
- Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift security, including RBAC, SCC, secrets management, image scanning, signed images, and compliance-driven deployments.
- Experience implementing observability solutions using tools for metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerts, and SLO-based validation.
- Experience managing Agile or Scrum-based engineering teams.
- Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration is a plus.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification is a plus.
- Experience working with customer-facing engineering teams, product teams, vendors, and telecom operators is a plus.
Career Level - M2