OpenShift Cloud Engineer – DoD (Hybrid/Remote)

Socket.dev; Springfield (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to support development, integration, operation, and sustainment of AI and cloud solutions for a DoD customer.

You will work with an integrated cloud and infrastructure team across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, handling security compliance, upgrades, and end-to-end platform operations.

Qualifications

• US Citizen required by contract.
• Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
• 3+ years of IT infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, container platform, or cloud engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of direct, hands on experience supporting Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration, upgrades/patching, troubleshooting, networking, storage, security, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift environments under established architecture, engineering standards, and security requirements.
• Support cluster administration including configuration, upgrades, patching, node management, networking, storage, security, monitoring, logging, back‑up/recovery, and performance troubleshooting.
• Support Kubernetes/OpenShift workload including projects/namespaces, pods, deployments, services, routes/ingress, ConfigMaps, persistent storage, resource limits, and RBAC.
• Support onboarding and migration of customer and vendor/partner applications into OpenShift environment in coordination with development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
• Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, container, Linux, networking, storage, and application platform issues; resolve issues within assigned responsibility and elevate complex platform or architectural issues to senior engineers/SMEs.
• Support Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)0, and Red Hat CoreOS administration associated with OpenShift platform operations.
• Support CI/CD, GitOps, and DevOps workflows using GitLab or comparable tooling to enable repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
• Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps workflows, or comparable tooling.
• Support OpenShift operations across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified environments, including AWS GovCloud and Azure Government.
• Support security compliance including patching, vulnerability remediation, STIG implementation, configuration compliance, POA&M remediation, logging, access controls, and ATO sustainment.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, and performance and assist with proactive identification and resolution of operational issues.
• Develop and maintain system configurations, SOPs, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, diagrams , and knowledge management/documentation.
• Participate in change management, maintenance windows, incident response, release activities, and operational support.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, OpenShift SMEs, program and project management, cybersecurity, customers, Government representatives and vendor partner teams.
• Provide technical input based on direct platform experience while escalating major architecture and design decisions to senior technical leadership.
• Support knowledge sharing and cross training within the cloud and infrastructure engineering team.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

DevOps

GitLab

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Scripting

Education

Bachelor of Science in a technical field

Tools

Docker/Podman

GitLab

Helm

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to support development, integration, operation, and sustainment of AI and cloud solutions for a DoD customer.

You will work with an integrated cloud and infrastructure team across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, handling security compliance, upgrades, and end-to-end platform operations.