Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer

Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to work hybrid/onsite position supporting the Fairfax, VA corporate office and/or Springfield, VA customer site.

The candidate must be able to support work within a SCIF and other Government locations as mission requirements dictate. Onsite support may be required up to 4 days per week, including additional support for critical deployments or operational issues.

• →Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift environments under established architecture, engineering standards, and security requirements.
• →Support cluster administration including configuration, upgrades, patching, node management, networking, storage, security, monitoring, logging, back-up/recovery, and performance troubleshooting.
• →Support Kubernetes/OpenShift workload including projects/namespaces, pods, deployments, services, routes/ingress, ConfigMaps, persistent storage, resource limits, and role based access controls.
• →Support onboarding and migration of customer and vendor/partner applications into OpenShift environment in coordination with development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
• →Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, container, Linux, networking, storage, and application platform issues; resolve issues within assigned responsibility and escalate complex platform or architectural issues to senior engineers/SMEs.
• →Support Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)0, and Red Hat CoreOS administration associated with OpenShift platform operations.
• →Support CI/CD, GitOps, and DevOps workflows using GitLab or comparable tooling to enable repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
• →Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps workflows, or comparable tooling.
• →Support OpenShift operations across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified environments, including AWS GovCloud and Azure Government.
• →Support security compliance including patching, vulnerability remediation, STIG implementation, configuration compliance, POA&M remediation, logging, access controls, and ATO sustainment.
• →Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, and performance and assist with proactive identification and resolution of operational issues.
• →Develop and maintain system configurations, SOPs, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, diagrams , and knowledge management/documentation.
• →Participate in change management, maintenance windows, incident response, release activities, and operational support.
• →Collaborate with senior engineers, OpenShift SMEs, program and project management, cybersecurity, customers, Government representatives and vendor partner teams.
• →Provide technical input based on direct platform experience while escalating major architecture and design decisions to senior technical leadership.
• →Support knowledge sharing and cross training within the cloud and infrastructure engineering team.

Salary: $140,000-190,000

General Description of Benefits

• →Must be a US Citizen as required by contract.
• →Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject to contractual labor category requirements.  
• →Active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
• →3+ years of IT infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, container platform, or cloud engineering experience.
• →At least 2 years of direct, hands on experience supporting Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• →Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration, upgrades/patching, troubleshooting, networking, storage, security, and monitoring.
• →Working knowledge of Kubernetes resources including pods, deployments, services, name spaces/projects, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, ingress/routes, resource management, and RBAC.
• →Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS.
• →Experience troubleshooting containerized workloads and platform issues 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 and DevOps concepts; GitLab experience preferred.
• →Working knowledge of automation and IAC concepts using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps, or comparable tooling.
• →Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, certificates/TLS, and Kubernetes/OpenShift networking.
• →Understanding of least privilege, RBAC, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and logging/monitoring.
• →Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
• →Strong analytical, troubleshooting, customer service, written, and verbal communication skills.
• →Ability to independently execute assigned engineering and operational tasks while recognizing when complex issues require escalation.
• →Must meet applicable DoD cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements for the position (e.g., DoD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level 1 or better).