Senior Red Hat OpenShift SME – DoD Hybrid Cloud

ECS; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax/Springfield, VA seeks a Red Hat OpenShift SME to own production OpenShift clusters across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, on‑prem, and hybrid environments. This hands‑on role requires strong troubleshooting, architecture guidance, and mentoring.

You will work hybrid on‑site roughly 3–4 days per week, require active TS clearance with SCI poly, and lead security, automation, and CI/CD integration for a large DoD program.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph required.
• 7+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• 3+ years of hands-on production OpenShift engineering/administration experience.
• Experience with DoD/regulatory environments and RMF/STIGs.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, administer, upgrade, optimize, and sustain OpenShift across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Own OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup/restore, certificate management, operators, security, networking, storage, performance, and capacity management.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for production OpenShift failures and perform root cause analysis across control plane and worker nodes, operators, networking, storage, ingress, DNS, authentication/RBAC, certificates, registries, workload, resource constraints, and cluster health/performance.
• Support onboarding of customer and partner/vendor teams and coordinate with Program/Project Management and engineering teams to ensure appropriate resources, dependencies, and operational support.
• Implement and troubleshoot OpenShift/Kubernetes networking to include Services, Routes/Ingress, DNS, network policies, load balancing, and integration with enterprise networking and firewalls.
• 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 required to sustain applicable ATOs.
• Develop architecture, configuration, operating, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer documentation; cross train engineers and establish repeatable platform standards and procedures.
• Advise Government customers, project management, engineering teams, and leadership on OpenShift architecture, migrations, platform operations, technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommended solutions.
• Support OpenShift platforms hosting AI/ML, data intensive, and other mission requirements/lines of effort as required.
• Track relevant platform and industry developments and contribute to solutioning, capture, and proposal activities as needed.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Hybrid cloud

Security clearance

Production engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitOps

Job description

Everforth ECS in Fairfax/Springfield, VA seeks a Red Hat OpenShift SME to own production OpenShift clusters across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, on‑prem, and hybrid environments. This hands‑on role requires strong troubleshooting, architecture guidance, and mentoring.

You will work hybrid on‑site roughly 3–4 days per week, require active TS clearance with SCI poly, and lead security, automation, and CI/CD integration for a large DoD program.