Senior RHEL & OpenShift Engineer - Cloud Automation Lead

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaztronix is seeking a Senior RHEL Engineer to lead deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability and security on a government facility.

You will develop automation scripts for provisioning, configuration management, and deployment, and build CI/CD pipelines for automated release in cloud environments. This role requires on-site presence in Colorado Springs and a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance required.
• US Citizens only due to federal requirements.
• 7+ years of hands-on RHEL experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on OpenShift experience.
• On-site position at a government facility in Colorado Springs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy containerized applications using OpenShift with high performance and scalability.
• Implement and optimize monitoring with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana for real-time health tracking.
• Transition OpenShift operations to partially disconnected environments while deploying security updates.
• Automate cluster provisioning and scaling to reduce deployment time and human error.
• Manage multi-cluster OpenShift across production and development with 99.99% uptime.
• Document knowledge and train team on Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager and Kubernetes management.
• Integrate Red Hat Satellite for patch management across environments.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery plans and backups for critical systems.
• Configure and manage network services (DNS, DHCP, NFS) in RHEL.
• Kernel tuning and system optimization.
• Enforce security policies with SELinux and firewalls.
• Root-cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Cloud security best practices including IAM, encryption, network security.
• Monitor cloud resource usage for cost efficiency and performance.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing in cloud environments.

Skills

RHEL

OpenShift

DevOps

Cloud technologies

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Red Hat Satellite

Kubernetes

Job description

Kaztronix is seeking a Senior RHEL Engineer to lead deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability and security on a government facility.

You will develop automation scripts for provisioning, configuration management, and deployment, and build CI/CD pipelines for automated release in cloud environments. This role requires on-site presence in Colorado Springs and a Secret clearance.