Container Platform Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Container Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift container platforms supporting mission-critical workloads across on-premises and cloud environments. The role owns the platform lifecycle, including cluster provisioning and hardening, workload onboarding, developer enablement, ongoing operations, and continuous improvement. The engineer will work with application teams, security engineers, and infrastructure stakeholders to provide a stable, secure, developer-friendly platform. This is a full-time, direct W2 position with Bright Vision Technologies, supporting the company’s in-house Statement of Work engagement. The position is 100% remote within the continental United States. C2C, 1099, and third-party arrangements are not accepted. New H1B sponsorship is unavailable; qualified candidates who currently hold a valid H1B and need a transfer may apply. A technical coding assessment is mandatory.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least five years of experience operating container platforms in production, including at least three years with Red Hat OpenShift.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift internals, including operators, CRDs, RBAC, and networking.
- Strong Linux administration skills, including networking, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines on OpenShift or Kubernetes using Tekton, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
- Working knowledge of cluster monitoring, logging, and tracing tools.
- Familiarity with container image security and supply-chain hardening.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Must be willing to work directly as a full-time W2 employee of Bright Vision Technologies; C2C, 1099, and third-party arrangements are not accepted.
- A technical coding assessment is mandatory.
- New H1B sponsorship is unavailable. Candidates with a valid H1B who require a transfer may apply.
Nice To Haves
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or an architect-level Red Hat certification.
- Experience operating OpenShift on at least one major public cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Exposure to service mesh implementations such as OpenShift Service Mesh, Istio, or Linkerd.
- Familiarity with regulated environments such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or SOC 2.
- Experience with GitOps workflows using Argo CD or Flux.
Responsibilities
- Architect, provision, and operate Red Hat OpenShift clusters across on-premises, virtualized, and major cloud environments, with attention to availability, scalability, and security.
- Design multi-tenant OpenShift platforms with project isolation, network policies, quotas, RBAC, and security context constraints.
- Automate cluster installation, upgrades, scaling, and decommissioning using the OpenShift installer, GitOps tooling, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Onboard application teams by providing self-service patterns, project templates, CI/CD integrations, and documentation.
- Operate OpenShift networking, including SDN/OVN-Kubernetes, ingress controllers, routes, network policies, and integrations with enterprise firewalls and load balancers.
- Manage block, file, and object storage strategies, including dynamic provisioning, OpenShift Data Foundation, and external storage integrations.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing with the OpenShift observability stack and integrate it with enterprise SIEM and APM tools.
- Harden the platform with security teams, including image scanning, runtime protection, secret management, and regulatory compliance.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on OpenShift using tools such as Tekton, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Argo Workflows.
- Develop disaster-recovery and backup strategies for cluster state, etcd, and persistent workloads, and validate them through failover and restore drills.
- Plan, test, and execute cluster upgrades with minimal workload disruption, including pre-upgrade validation and rollback strategies.
- Work with application teams to right-size workloads, manage quotas, and tune cluster autoscaling for performance and cost efficiency.
- Improve platform tooling and developer experience by gathering user feedback and translating it into roadmap improvements.
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as an OpenShift subject-matter expert across the organization.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
