OpenShift Cloud Engineer — Hybrid/Remote, TS Clearance

ECS Corporate Services; Springfield (VA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS seeks a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer SME to lead architecture, deployment, and operation of OpenShift across hybrid infrastructure in the Fairfax/Springfield, VA area. The role demands hands-on ownership of production clusters and mentoring other engineers, with a focus on security, performance, and scalability.

The successful candidate will coordinate across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and program teams, supporting DoD programs in multiple environments including AWS

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• Active TS security clearance or eligibility to obtain SCI access and CI polygraph.
• 7+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering with hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience designing, deploying, administering, upgrading and troubleshooting OpenShift clusters in production.
• Experience operating OpenShift across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration with RHEL/RHEL CoreOS.
• Knowledge of IAM, security hardening, vulnerability remediation in DoD environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, administer, upgrade, and sustain Red Hat OpenShift environments across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Own OpenShift cluster lifecycle: installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup/restore, certificates, operators, security.
• Provide senior escalation for production OpenShift failures and perform root-cause analysis.
• Mentor engineers, establish platform standards, and communicate risks and tradeoffs to leadership.
• Integrate OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines, registries, artifact repos, and GitOps workflows.
• Ensure compliance, remediation, patching, and POA&M activities for applicable authorizations.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Red Hat Linux

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Helm

Security hardening

Cloud integration (AWS/Azure)

Production support

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Helm

GitOps

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Everforth ECS seeks a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer SME to lead architecture, deployment, and operation of OpenShift across hybrid infrastructure in the Fairfax/Springfield, VA area. The role demands hands-on ownership of production clusters and mentoring other engineers, with a focus on security, performance, and scalability.

The successful candidate will coordinate across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and program teams, supporting DoD programs in multiple environments including AWS