Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens Only (No Dual Citizenship)
Clearance: Must be eligible for Public Trust
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, administer, automate, secure, and optimize enterprise container platforms supporting federal application modernization.
This position requires hands-on Red Hat OpenShift expertise, Kubernetes platform engineering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, automation, and secure CI/CD practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, administer, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
- Support containerized applications and Kubernetes-based platform services.
- Manage cluster upgrades, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and high availability.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes using Ansible.
- Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
- Implement CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines supporting secure application delivery.
- Configure role-based access, network policies, secrets, and platform security controls.
- Troubleshoot cluster, networking, storage, deployment, and container runtime issues.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, development, DevOps, and infrastructure engineering teams.
- Support compliance and operational documentation for federal environments.
Mandatory Qualifications
- 8+ years in infrastructure engineering, Linux administration, or DevOps.
- 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift experience.
- Strong enterprise Red Hat OpenShift platform administration experience.
- Advanced Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge.
- Hands-on Ansible automation experience.
- Experience implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
- Deep understanding of container orchestration, networking, storage, and security.
- Understanding of NIST and FISMA security controls.
Preferred Qualifications
- Red Hat OpenShift or RHCE certifications.
- Experience supporting regulated federal cloud environments.
- Experience with monitoring, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and secure container registries.
- Experience administering production container platforms with high availability requirements.