Senior OpenShift & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

TEKsystems; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance (Voluntary)

PTO / Time Off

Job summary

TEKsystems seeks a Senior OpenShift & Kubernetes Platform Engineer to build, automate, and scale enterprise container platforms across AWS and Azure. You will own OpenShift environments, support EKS/AKS, and drive IaC through Terraform, with strong emphasis on automation and security controls.

The role is 100% remote within the United States, with hands-on responsibilities for platform reliability, observability, and operational standards in a large cloud modernization initiative.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes administration experience.
• Strong production experience with Red Hat OpenShift (Required).
• Experience deploying, administering, and supporting OpenShift in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Amazon EKS and/or Azure AKS.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with Ansible automation.
• Experience scripting with Python or Bash.
• Experience supporting production container platforms at scale.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes RBAC, security controls, and network policies.
• Strong troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, AWS, and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Build, administer, and scale enterprise Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Support Kubernetes platforms across OpenShift, Amazon EKS, and Azure AKS.
• Manage cluster lifecycle activities including provisioning, upgrades, patching, tuning, and capacity planning.
• Design and deploy highly available container platforms in AWS and Azure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Automate platform administration through Ansible, Python, and Bash.
• Support CI/CD and GitOps deployment workflows.
• Implement Kubernetes and OpenShift security controls, RBAC, and network policies.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, monitoring, and operational standards.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, networking, AWS, and Azure.
• Partner with application teams migrating and scaling cloud-native applications.
• Create deployment standards, automation frameworks, documentation, and operational runbooks.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

CI/CD

GitOps

AWS

Azure

EKS

AKS

RBAC

Security

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

GitOps

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Job description

TEKsystems seeks a Senior OpenShift & Kubernetes Platform Engineer to build, automate, and scale enterprise container platforms across AWS and Azure. You will own OpenShift environments, support EKS/AKS, and drive IaC through Terraform, with strong emphasis on automation and security controls.

The role is 100% remote within the United States, with hands-on responsibilities for platform reliability, observability, and operational standards in a large cloud modernization initiative.