Red Hat OpenShift Engineer SME

Location: Hybrid remote/onsite supporting customer locations in Fairfax, VA and/or Springfield, VA; regular SCIF/onsite support is expected approximately 3–4 days per week, with additional onsite support for critical deployments, maintenance, or operational issues.

Salary: $175,000–$210,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud and infrastructure engineering support for a large Department of Defense program spanning government cloud, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

What you will do

• Architect, deploy, administer, upgrade, optimize, and sustain Red Hat OpenShift environments across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure and applicable DoD classification levels.
• Own cluster lifecycle activities, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup and restore, certificates, operators, security, networking, storage, performance, and capacity management.
• Act as the senior escalation point for production failures, perform root cause analysis, and resolve issues involving control planes, worker nodes, operators, networking, storage, ingress, DNS, authentication, RBAC, certificates, registries, workloads, and resource constraints.
• Implement and troubleshoot networking, persistent storage, enterprise and cloud integrations, CI/CD pipelines, container registries, artifact repositories, security scanning, and GitOps workflows.
• Maintain security compliance, vulnerability remediation, patching, configuration compliance, and POA&M activities required to sustain applicable ATOs.
• Develop technical and operational documentation, mentor and cross-train engineers, establish platform standards, coordinate with customer and partner teams, and advise leadership on architecture, migrations, risks, tradeoffs, and solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject to contractual labor category requirements.
• Active TS security clearance and eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
• 7+ years of relevant infrastructure or platform engineering experience, including substantial hands-on Kubernetes experience and at least 3+ years of hands-on production Red Hat OpenShift engineering or administration experience.
• Expertise designing, deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting production Red Hat OpenShift clusters and Kubernetes environments.
• Experience operating OpenShift across enterprise cloud, on-premises, and/or hybrid infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or comparable enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience with RHEL and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, Helm, and/or GitOps methodologies.
• Experience with security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and configuration compliance in regulated or DoD environments.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, develop actionable recommendations, mentor engineers, establish standards, and communicate technical risks and tradeoffs.
• Strong customer focus, written and verbal communication, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills.
• DOD 8570-01M certification at IAM Level I or better, such as Security+.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a hybrid remote/onsite work arrangement.
• Regular work is performed in SCIF and customer-site environments, with additional onsite support required for critical operational events.
• Work supports AI/ML, data-intensive, and other mission requirements.
• Includes the company’s general benefits package.