OpenShift Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & DevSecOps

First Soft Solutions LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Soft Solutions LLC seeks an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, administer, automate, secure, and optimize enterprise container platforms supporting federal application modernization. You will work hands-on with OpenShift, Kubernetes, RHEL, and CI/CD security practices to enable secure delivery.

You will join a collaborative team that prioritizes compliance, reliable operations, and scalable platform engineering for critical government workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering, Linux administration, or DevOps.
• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift experience.
• Strong enterprise Red Hat OpenShift platform administration experience.
• Advanced Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge.
• Hands-on Ansible automation experience.
• Experience implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Understanding of NIST and FISMA security controls.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Support containerized applications and Kubernetes-based platform services.
• Manage cluster upgrades, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and high availability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes using Ansible.
• Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
• Implement CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines supporting secure application delivery.
• Configure role-based access, network policies, secrets, and platform security controls.
• Troubleshoot cluster, networking, storage, deployment, and container runtime issues.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, development, DevOps, and infrastructure engineering teams.
• Support compliance and operational documentation for federal environments.

Skills

Kubernetes/OpenShift experience

Ansible automation

DevSecOps / CI/CD

Security controls (NIST/FISMA)

Collaboration / cross-team work

Education

RHCE certification

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Ansible

Job description

First Soft Solutions LLC seeks an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, administer, automate, secure, and optimize enterprise container platforms supporting federal application modernization. You will work hands-on with OpenShift, Kubernetes, RHEL, and CI/CD security practices to enable secure delivery.

You will join a collaborative team that prioritizes compliance, reliable operations, and scalable platform engineering for critical government workloads.