OCC Lab Infrastructure Architect/Manager
Location: Austin, TX
Job Type: contract
Company: The Select Group
Job Description Apply Now
Lab Infrastructure Technical Manager / Architect
The Select Group is seeking a technical leader to help drive the evolution of large-scale lab environments supporting next-generation platform validation, testing, and deployment activities.
This opportunity is well-suited for professionals who bring a blend of infrastructure architecture expertise, cloud-native platform knowledge, and team leadership experience. The environment is undergoing significant modernization efforts, offering the chance to influence long-term strategy while supporting critical operational initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and telecom lab environments.
- Lead and mentor a distributed team of infrastructure engineers, establishing operational standards and technical best practices.
- Own and maintain platform architecture across Kubernetes, OpenStack, Oracle infrastructure, Red Hat environments, and telecom platforms.
- Drive infrastructure modernization and migration initiatives, including data center and platform transformation efforts.
- Support lab expansion through capacity planning, utilization management, and hardware lifecycle planning.
- Partner with internal stakeholders, vendors, and customers to ensure lab environments meet evolving business and technical requirements.
- Act as an escalation point for complex infrastructure, networking, platform, and application issues.
- Deliver visibility into infrastructure capacity, operational risks, and roadmap readiness.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience supporting cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and/or telecom lab environments.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, cluster deployment models, and platform operations.
- Experience with Red Hat technologies including RHEL, OpenShift, and OpenStack.
- Proven experience architecting and supporting cloud-native infrastructure environments.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including IPv4/IPv6, load balancing, and distributed systems.
- Experience with storage, virtualization, monitoring, and observability platforms.
- Working knowledge of 4G and 5G network architectures and telecom environments.
- Demonstrated success troubleshooting across infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and application layers.
- Previous experience leading technical teams, managing escalations, and operating in fast-paced environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), or Oracle server hardware.
- Knowledge of F5 technologies and service mesh architectures.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation, YAML-based deployments, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or telecom infrastructure environments.
What Makes This Opportunity Unique
- Fully remote work environment.
- Long-term consulting engagement with strong potential for extension and/or conversion.
- Opportunity to influence infrastructure strategy and modernization efforts.
- High-impact role supporting large-scale cloud-native and telecom platform initiatives.
- Strong balance of technical leadership, architecture ownership, and team management responsibilities.
Ideal backgrounds include Lab Infrastructure Manager, Telecom Infrastructure Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Kubernetes Platform Architect, Platform Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering Manager, or Senior Infrastructure Engineer looking to transition into leadership.
TSG is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. #LI-AM1
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