OpenShift & Kubernetes Cloud Engineer

Naval Nuclear Laboratory (FMP); Town of Niskayuna (NY); On-site; USD 79,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Naval Nuclear Laboratory is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift platforms spanning on‑premises and cloud environments. You will manage Kubernetes workloads, install Operators, and integrate containerized apps into CI/CD pipelines to ensure secure, scalable operations.

The role emphasizes automation, security governance, and collaboration across DevOps and security teams, with a focus on reliable, highly available

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree in a related field and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters across development, testing, and production environments.
• Manage, monitor, and optimize Kubernetes workloads to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Install, configure, and maintain OpenShift Operators for application deployment and lifecycle management.
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines by integrating containerized applications into automated deployment workflows.
• Monitor cluster health, resource utilization, and application performance using appropriate monitoring and logging tools.
• Troubleshoot platform, networking, storage, and application issues to minimize downtime and improve reliability.
• Implement security, compliance, and governance best practices for OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver reliable container platform solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and platform standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Containerization

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms

RBAC & security

Helm

Kustomize

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

IaC tools

Job description

Naval Nuclear Laboratory is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift platforms spanning on‑premises and cloud environments. You will manage Kubernetes workloads, install Operators, and integrate containerized apps into CI/CD pipelines to ensure secure, scalable operations.

The role emphasizes automation, security governance, and collaboration across DevOps and security teams, with a focus on reliable, highly available