Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer

ECS; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS seeks a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to support DoD cloud solutions from the Fairfax, VA area. Hybrid/onsite role involving OpenShift, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tasks across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and on-premises environments.

The engineer collaborates with senior staff to deploy, operate, and sustain OpenShift platforms, ensuring security, compliance, and reliability across classified contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher in a technical field; relevant experience may substitute.
• 3+ years IT infra, DevOps, cloud or container platform experience.
• 2+ years Kubernetes/OpenShift experience; administration, deployment and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot OpenShift environments.
• Manage cluster config, upgrades, patching, node management, networking, storage, security, monitoring.
• Support OpenShift workloads, projects/namespaces, and RBAC across environments.
• Migrate and onboard applications into OpenShift with various teams; escalate complex issues to SMEs.
• Maintain automation and IaC using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Automation

Linux

Education

B.S. in technical field

Tools

GitLab

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Docker/Podman

Job description

Job Description Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to work hybrid/onsite position supporting the Fairfax, VA corporate office and/or Springfield, VA customer site.

The candidate must be able to support work within a SCIF and other Government locations as mission requirements dictate. Onsite support may be required up to 4 days per week, including additional support for critical deployments or operational issues.

Job Description: Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to support the development, integration, operation, and sustainment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud solutions for a Department of Defense (DoD) customer.

The engineer will work as a part of an integrated cloud and infrastructure team supporting Red Hat OpenShift environments across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure. The role supports platform operations, application onboarding, security compliance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and sustainment across multiple environments and classification levels.

This is an execution focused engineering role for a candidate with practical OpenShift and Kubernetes experience who can independently execute established engineering and operational tasks while collaborating with senior engineers and OpenShift SMEs on complex architecture, migrations, and escalated technical issues.

Responsibilities Include:

• Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift environments under established architecture, engineering standards, and security requirements.
• Support cluster administration including configuration, upgrades, patching, node management, networking, storage, security, monitoring, logging, back-up/recovery, and performance troubleshooting.
• Support Kubernetes/OpenShift workload including projects/namespaces, pods, deployments, services, routes/ingress, ConfigMaps, persistent storage, resource limits, and role based access controls.
• Support onboarding and migration of customer and vendor/partner applications into OpenShift environment in coordination with development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
• Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, container, Linux, networking, storage, and application platform issues; resolve issues within assigned responsibility and escalate complex platform or architectural issues to senior engineers/SMEs.
• Support Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)0, and Red Hat CoreOS administration associated with OpenShift platform operations.
• Support CI/CD, GitOps, and DevOps workflows using GitLab or comparable tooling to enable repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
• Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps workflows, or comparable tooling.
• Support OpenShift operations across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified environments, including AWS GovCloud and Azure Government.
• Support security compliance including patching, vulnerability remediation, STIG implementation, configuration compliance, POA&M remediation, logging, access controls, and ATO sustainment.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, and performance and assist with proactive identification and resolution of operational issues.
• Develop and maintain system configurations, SOPs, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, diagrams , and knowledge management/documentation.
• Participate in change management, maintenance windows, incident response, release activities, and operational support.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, OpenShift SMEs, program and project management, cybersecurity, customers, Government representatives and vendor partner teams.
• Provide technical input based on direct platform experience while escalating major architecture and design decisions to senior technical leadership.
• Support knowledge sharing and cross training within the cloud and infrastructure engineering team.

Salary: $140,000-190,000

General Description Of Benefits

Required Skills

• Must be a US Citizen as required by contract.
• Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject to contractual labor category requirements.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
• 3+ years of IT infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, container platform, or cloud engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of direct, hands on experience supporting Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration, upgrades/patching, troubleshooting, networking, storage, security, and monitoring.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes resources including pods, deployments, services, name spaces/projects, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, ingress/routes, resource management, and RBAC.
• Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS.
• Experience troubleshooting containerized workloads and platform issues across application, compute, networking, storage, and operating system layers.
• Working knowledge of container images, registries, runtime fundamentals, and Docker/Podman or comparable tooling.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps concepts; GitLab experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of automation and IAC concepts using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps, or comparable tooling.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, certificates/TLS, and Kubernetes/OpenShift networking.
• Understanding of least privilege, RBAC, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and logging/monitoring.
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, customer service, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently execute assigned engineering and operational tasks while recognizing when complex issues require escalation.
• Must meet applicable DoD cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements for the position (e.g., DoD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level 1 or better).

Desired Skills

• Active TS/SCI with current CI Polygraph
• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Certification
• 3+ years of direct OpenShift administration experience.
• Experience supporting OpenShift clusters in cloud, on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and/or air-gapped environments.
• Experience within classified DoD cloud or on-premises environments.
• Experience with AWS/AWS GovCloud and/or Microsoft Azure/Azure Government.
• Experience with Argo CD/OpenShift GitOps or comparable GitOps tooling.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, container registries, artifact repositories, automated security scanning, and DevOps pipelines.
• Experience using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable automation/scripting technologies.
• Experience with OpenShift networking, storage, Operators, monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Experience with enterprise/Kubernetes storage such as NFS, blocked/object storage, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with RMF, STIGS, vulnerability remediation, POA&Ms, and/or ATO sustainment.
• Experience helping application based teams migrate traditional or containerized workloads to OpenShift.
• Exposure to OpenShift AI, AI/ML platofrms, GPU enables container workloads, or infrastructure supporting AI/ML development and inference.
• Experience operating production platforms using formal incident, task, change, configuration, and release management/deployment processes.

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