Senior Platform Engineer — OpenShift & Kubernetes (TS/SCI)

Vantor Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support multi‑site Red Hat OpenShift clusters and NetApp‑backed storage services.

You will help operate and improve platform reliability, lifecycle management, automation, security, and recovery capabilities while partnering with storage, network, security, and development teams. The role supports mission‑critical workloads in a secure or disconnected environment.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active TS/SCI with a CI poly clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related field.
• Production experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
• Experience with OpenShift production environments and lifecycle management.
• Automation using Ansible, Terraform, scripting, or GitOps.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Monitoring, incident response, and runbook development.
• Ability to collaborate with distributed teams and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters across on‑premise and hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support containerized application delivery.
• Implement infrastructure as code and automation.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, and security, and respond to incidents.
• Develop and maintain platform tooling 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 clearly.

Skills

Clearance eligibility

Communication skills

Distributed teams

SCIF work readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD tools

GitOps

NetApp ONTAP

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Vantor Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support multi‑site Red Hat OpenShift clusters and NetApp‑backed storage services.

You will help operate and improve platform reliability, lifecycle management, automation, security, and recovery capabilities while partnering with storage, network, security, and development teams. The role supports mission‑critical workloads in a secure or disconnected environment.