Senior Red Hat OpenShift Engineer TS/SCI Eligible

RAZOR; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Professional development

Job summary

Razor seeks a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer SME to support a large DoD program spanning AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and on‑premises/hybrid environments. This hands-on SME will own production OpenShift clusters, drive architecture, and mentor engineers across multiple classification levels.

Hybrid work with SCIF/onsite support about 3–4 days per week; travel as needed for critical deployments or issues. Active Top Secret clearance and DoD experience strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant infrastructure/platform engineering experience.
• At least 3 years of hands-on production Red Hat OpenShift engineering/administration experience.
• Expertise designing, deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting production Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes architecture, administration, workload management, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience with RHEL and RHCOS.
• Experience operating OpenShift across enterprise cloud, on-premises, and/or hybrid infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, Helm, and/or GitOps.
• Experience with security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and configuration compliance within regulated or DoD environments.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience, including deploying or operating OpenShift/Kubernetes within AWS, Azure, or comparable enterprise cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex production platform issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Experience serving as a technical escalation point, mentoring engineers, and establishing platform standards.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, customer-facing, and problem-solving skills.
• DoD 8570-01M IAM Level I or higher certification, such as Security+ (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, administer, upgrade, optimize, and sustain OpenShift environments across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Own OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup and restore, certificate management, operators, security, networking, storage, performance, and capacity management.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex production OpenShift failures and perform root-cause analysis across control plane and worker nodes, operators, networking, storage, ingress, DNS, authentication/RBAC, certificates, registries, workloads, and cluster health.
• Implement and troubleshoot OpenShift/Kubernetes networking, including Services, Routes/Ingress, DNS, network policies, load balancing, and enterprise networking/firewall integrations.
• Integrate and troubleshoot persistent storage using Storage Classes, Persistent Volumes/Claims, and enterprise or cloud storage platforms.
• Automate OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure and application configuration using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, Helm, and GitOps methodologies.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise CI/CD pipelines, container registries, artifact repositories, security scanning, and GitOps workflows.
• Maintain security compliance and execute remediation, patching, vulnerability management, and POA&M activities supporting applicable Client.
• Develop architecture, configuration, operating, troubleshooting, and knowledge-transfer documentation.
• Establish repeatable platform standards and procedures and mentor/cross-train other engineers.
• Support onboarding of customer, partner, and vendor teams.
• Advise government customers, engineering teams, project leadership, and senior leadership on OpenShift architecture, migrations, platform operations, technical risks, and recommended solutions.
• Support OpenShift platforms hosting AI/ML, data-intensive, and other mission workloads.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux (RHEL)

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Security/compliance DoD

Terraform/Ansible

GitOps

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor of Science degree

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD/OpenShift GitOps

GitLab CI/CD

Red Hat Quay

Job description

Razor seeks a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer SME to support a large DoD program spanning AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and on‑premises/hybrid environments. This hands-on SME will own production OpenShift clusters, drive architecture, and mentor engineers across multiple classification levels.

Hybrid work with SCIF/onsite support about 3–4 days per week; travel as needed for critical deployments or issues. Active Top Secret clearance and DoD experience strongly preferred.