Platform Engineer (CPEN)

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc is seeking a senior platform engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise Kubernetes-based environments. You will manage OpenShift/Rancher deployments, strengthen Linux infrastructure, and drive automation across CI/CD, storage, networking, and observability.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available PaaS platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container platforms in production.
• Strong RHEL/Linux administration and troubleshooting in enterprise environments.
• Experience with OpenShift or Rancher deployments and storage integration.
• Proficiency in IaC and automation (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).

Skills

Kubernetes administration

OpenShift or Rancher deployments

RHEL/Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

Linux storage & RAID

Automation scripting (Shell/Python/Ans

Terraform / IaC

Helm / Argo CD / GitOps

Docker & Podman

Prometheus & Grafana monitoring

CI/CD pipelines & Git workflows

LLDP & network troubleshooting

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Rancher

Docker

Podman

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Argo CD

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration, configuration, upgrades, operations, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience deploying and managing enterprise Kubernetes platforms using Red Hat OpenShift and/or Rancher.
• Strong hands-on RHEL/Linux administration and troubleshooting experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux storage, LVM, filesystems, RAID, server hardware, and system performance troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of networking, TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, SSH, TLS/SSL, certificates, and PKI.
• Experience with enterprise storage and Pure Storage integration with Kubernetes, including CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes, and dynamic provisioning.
• Hands-on automation and scripting experience using Shell/Bash, Python, and Ansible.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
• Hands-on experience with Helm, Argo CD, and GitOps for Kubernetes application and platform deployments.
• Strong working knowledge of Git/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines, including version control, automated deployments, and environment promotion.
• Experience with container technologies including Docker and Podman, container images, registries, networking, storage, and runtime troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and performance analysis.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, resilient Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments supporting mission-critical workloads.
• Experience supporting platforms for large-scale data ingestion, ETL, distributed data processing, and high-throughput workloads.
• Experience with using LLDP for hardware network-layer identification and TCPDUMP for network troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge equivalent to CCENT / Network+ for Server network configurations / validations, inclusive of NIC Bonding and LACP requirements.