Platform Engineer: OpenShift & Kubernetes – Secure Ops

maxar; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantor seeks a highly skilled Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters across on-prem and hybrid environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure as code, and collaborate with security, network, and development teams to ensure reliability for mission-critical workloads.

The role requires US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance (CI poly preferred), with 8+ years in platform engineering or DevOps.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance (CI poly preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with 8+ years in platform engineering or DevOps.
• Production experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
• Experience supporting production OpenShift environments, including lifecycle management, upgrades, operators, node pools, ingress, registries, and troubleshooting.
• Infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, scripting, or GitOps.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity management, and runbook development.
• Ability to work with geographically distributed teams and communicate with customers clearly.
• Willingness to work 90% or more in a SCIF environment with on-call/after-hours support.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters across on-prem and hybrid cloud.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support containerized app delivery.
• Implement infrastructure as code.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, and security; respond to incidents and optimize systems.
• Develop and maintain platform tooling, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to improve usability and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with security and governance standards.
• Communicate with SAFe Agile teams and articulate technical concepts effectively.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Automation

GitOps

Monitoring & incident response

Security & compliance

Cross-team collaboration

SAFe Agile coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Job description

Vantor seeks a highly skilled Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters across on-prem and hybrid environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure as code, and collaborate with security, network, and development teams to ensure reliability for mission-critical workloads.

The role requires US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance (CI poly preferred), with 8+ years in platform engineering or DevOps.