Red Hat OpenShift Engineer

Location: Hybrid/onsite support for the Fairfax, VA corporate office and/or Springfield, VA customer site; onsite support may be required up to 4 days per week, including additional support for critical deployments or operational issues. Must support work within a SCIF and other Government locations as mission requirements dictate.

Salary: $140,000–$190,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides cloud and infrastructure engineering support for a Department of Defense customer, including AI and classified cloud solutions.

What you will do

• Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, upgrade, patch, monitor, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Administer clusters, workloads, networking, storage, security, logging, monitoring, backups, recovery, capacity, availability, and performance.
• Onboard and migrate customer and partner applications into OpenShift in collaboration with development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
• Support CI/CD, GitOps, DevOps, automation, and infrastructure as code using GitLab or comparable tools, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, and related technologies.
• Perform security compliance activities including vulnerability remediation, STIG implementation, configuration compliance, POA&M remediation, access controls, logging, and ATO sustainment.
• Participate in change management, maintenance windows, incident response, releases, documentation, knowledge sharing, and escalation of complex architecture or operational issues.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen as required by contract.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
• Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject to contractual labor category requirements.
• 3+ years of IT infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, container platform, or cloud engineering experience, including at least 2 years of direct hands-on Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift experience.
• Experience administering OpenShift or Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration, upgrades and patching, troubleshooting, networking, storage, security, and monitoring.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes resources including pods, deployments, services, namespaces/projects, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, ingress/routes, resource management, and RBAC.
• Linux administration experience, preferably with RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS; experience troubleshooting containerized workloads across application, compute, networking, storage, and operating-system layers.
• Working knowledge of container images, registries, runtime fundamentals, and Docker, Podman, or comparable tooling.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, automation, infrastructure as code, and GitOps concepts using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, or comparable tools.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, certificates/TLS, Kubernetes/OpenShift networking, least privilege, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and logging/monitoring.
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, system configurations, diagrams, and knowledge-management materials.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, customer service, written, and verbal communication skills; ability to work independently and recognize when complex issues require escalation.
• Must meet applicable DoD cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements, such as DoD 8570-01M IAM Level 1 or better certification.

Nice to have

• GitLab experience.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or Red Hat CoreOS.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within an integrated cloud and infrastructure engineering team.
• Regular collaboration with senior engineers, OpenShift SMEs, cybersecurity teams, program and project management, customers, Government representatives, and vendor partners.
• Work spans cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified environments with operational support for mission-critical deployments.
• Benefits are provided; details are available in hirify.global's General Description of Benefits.