OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer

Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States; full-time onsite and/or remote work

Company

hirify.global provides systems and DevOps support for application developers and operations at NCBI, part of the National Library of Medicine within the National Institutes of Health.

What you will do

• Build and maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Support Kubernetes-based infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Help internal developers transition legacy software development and deployment workflows to the modern DevOps platform.
• Work with GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, GKE, Anthos, and service-mesh technologies.
• Provide on-call support to internal developers and other staff.
• Create processes, procedures, and standard operating procedure documentation.

Requirements

• In-depth experience building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift clusters; using OpenShift alone is insufficient.
• Experience with Kubernetes, GCP cloud services including GKE and Anthos, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD.
• Good systems debugging skills and comfort with Linux or UNIX command-line environments.
• Experience with programming or scripting and a general understanding of TCP/IP protocols.
• BS degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience.
• Strong communication skills, customer focus, ownership, and ability to work with users with varying levels of IT knowledge.

Nice to have

• Service Reliability Engineering, Linux systems administration, automated CI servers, and configuration management experience.
• Automation with Bash, Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, or Perl; Puppet is preferred for configuration management.
• Experience with Git, Docker, monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpsGenie, and the TIGK stack.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, network configuration, attached network storage, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems design.
• Experience with Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Office, service mesh, GitOps, and Google Anthos.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Technical, scientific, and goal-oriented environment supporting biomedical research and public health services.
• On-site and off-site training courses.
• Conference attendance and tuition reimbursement.