Container Infrastructure Engineer

Digital Links Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Links Inc. in Washington, DC seeks a Container Infrastructure Engineer to enhance, maintain, and operationalize the OpenShift platform. You will support containerization, DevSecOps, observability, and platform engineering activities.

Preferred OpenShift experience and Red Hat EX280 certification; some production-facing responsibilities involve troubleshooting OpenShift/Kubernetes and collaborating with development teams on CI/CD and automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift platform and administration.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services in infrastructure.
• Scripting in Bash/Shell and Java basics.

Responsibilities

• Install and operate OpenShift Operators.
• Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, and infrastructure issues.
• Develop automation tools and scripts to improve infra operations.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins.
• Collaborate with development teams on containerization and infra requirements.
• Work with AWS tools and event-driven architectures.

Skills

OpenShift

AWS

Bash scripting

Docker

Java

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

Number of Resources: 1

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Role Overview

The Container Infrastructure Engineer will support the enhancement, maintenance, and operationalization of the OpenShift platform. This position will serve as an OpenShift-focused infrastructure resource, supporting containerization, automation, DevSecOps initiatives, observability, and platform engineering activities.

Production/client-facing OpenShift experience is preferred. Candidates who have passed, or are actively pursuing, the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) certification are also preferred.

[REDACTED] experience is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, maintain, and operationalize OpenShift Operators.
• Support projects designed to enhance the capabilities and feature set of the OpenShift platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve OpenShift, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-related issues.
• Support logging, service mesh, monitoring, and observability platforms.
• Develop automation tools, scripts, and processes to improve infrastructure operations.
• Contribute to the team's infrastructure automation initiatives.
• Support DevSecOps automation and continuous improvement activities.
• Collaborate with application development teams on containerization and infrastructure requirements.
• Support CI/CD processes and tools, including Jenkins.
• Work with event-driven frameworks and related technologies.
• Utilize AWS services and tools within the infrastructure environment.
• Apply coding and scripting skills using Java, Shell, and Python.
• Participate in triage, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis activities.

Required Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift Beginner
• AWS Beginner
• Linux / Bash Shell Scripting Beginner
• Containerization / Docker Beginner
• Java Beginner

Secondary Skills

• Object-Oriented Programming / Java
• CI/CD and DevSecOps principles
• SRE and observability practices
• Event-driven architectures / Kafka