OpenShift Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $86,000–$103,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Own the platform lifecycle from cluster provisioning and hardening through workload onboarding and ongoing operations.
• Enable application developers with a stable, secure, and developer-friendly container platform.
• Implement and operate CI/CD pipelines on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Partner with application teams, security engineers, and infrastructure stakeholders.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve platform reliability and performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least five years of production container-platform experience, including three or more years with Red Hat OpenShift.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift internals, including operators, CRDs, RBAC, and networking.
• Strong Linux administration, networking, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or Helm; CI/CD tools such as Tekton, Jenkins, or Argo CD; and monitoring, logging, and tracing tools.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, EAD holder, or H-1B transfer candidate. New H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.

Nice to have

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or an architect-level Red Hat certification.
• OpenShift experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with OpenShift Service Mesh, Istio, or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or SOC 2 environments.
• Experience with GitOps workflows using Argo CD or Flux.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Established organization with career growth opportunities.
• Work with application, security, and infrastructure stakeholders on mission-critical platforms.