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Job Title: Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer
Job Number: QBA1026-1
Position Type: Fill-time
Location: Washington, DC Metro Area
Days Remote: Hybrid — 2-3 days
Position Summary:
Inadev is seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, administer, secure, automate, and maintain the Red Hat OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) supporting the SEC Legacy EDGAR program.
The engineer will ensure a reliable, secure, highly available, and automated platform that enables application teams to deploy and operate containerized applications consistently. The role focuses on OpenShift platform engineering, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps integration, monitoring, security, lifecycle management, application onboarding, and production support.
Security Requirement: Public Trust or ability to obtain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engineer, administer, and maintain enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes PaaS environments.
- Develop and maintain standardized, reusable platform services for application deployment and operations.
- Manage OpenShift clusters, Operators, projects/namespaces, containers, networking, routes, storage, security controls, certificates, and resource configurations.
- Automate platform provisioning, configuration, maintenance, validation, and recovery using Ansible, Bash, Python, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Integrate OpenShift with CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, source control systems, container registries, and deployment processes.
- Support application onboarding, deployments, configuration, troubleshooting, and runtime performance.
- Monitor platform availability, capacity, performance, health, logging, and resource utilization.
- Perform platform patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, and lifecycle maintenance.
- Implement security controls aligned with applicable NIST, FISMA, Zero Trust, and SEC security requirements.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues involving OpenShift, Linux, containers, networking, storage, middleware, and application layers.
- Support backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and continuity-of-operations activities.
- Maintain platform architecture documentation, configuration baselines, runbooks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and recovery procedures.
- Collaborate with development, DevSecOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams, as well as Red Hat technical resources.
Minimum Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, Linux administration, or systems engineering.
- 5+ years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes experience in enterprise environments.
- Experience implementing and supporting Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities.
- Experience with Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and infrastructure automation.
- Experience integrating OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Git, and container registries.
- Strong Linux administration and Bash/Python scripting skills.
- Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments.
- Experience with platform security, vulnerability remediation, patching, certificate management, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust suitability.
Mandatory Skills:
- Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration and engineering.
- Enterprise PaaS implementation and support.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Linux administration.
- Containers, Kubernetes Operators, networking, routes, and storage.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), monitoring, and logging.
- Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- CI/CD integration, Jenkins, Git, and container registries.
- Bash and Python scripting.
- DevOps/DevSecOps integration.
Non-technical Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship.
- High-availability platform operations and production troubleshooting.
- Platform security, vulnerability remediation, patching, and certificate management.
- Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust suitability.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience supporting SEC, EDGAR, or other federal systems.
- Experience with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).
- Knowledge of Java/J2EE, Jenkins, Git, and Maven.
- Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and Zero Trust requirements.
- Experience working with Red Hat support or consulting services.