OpenShift Platform Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced OpenShift 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 engineer will own the platform lifecycle, from cluster provisioning and hardening through workload onboarding, developer enablement, ongoing operations, and continuous improvement. The role partners with application teams, security engineers, and infrastructure stakeholders to provide a stable, secure, developer-friendly container platform. The position is 100% remote in the U.S., full-time, and direct W2, with an annual salary range of $100,000–$180,000. Applicants must have at least eight years of relevant experience, including at least three years with Red Hat OpenShift. The company encourages applications from U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates, but cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Eight or more years of experience operating container platforms in production, including at least three years on 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.
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, following high-availability, scalability, and security best practices.
- Design and implement multi-tenant platforms with project isolation, network policies, quotas, RBAC, and security context constraints.
- Automate cluster installation, upgrades, scaling, and decommissioning using OpenShift installer, GitOps tooling, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Onboard application development teams with self-service patterns, project templates, CI/CD integrations, and documentation.
- Operate OpenShift networking, including SDN/OVN-Kubernetes, ingress controllers, routes, network policies, and enterprise firewall and load-balancer integrations.
- 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 with enterprise SIEM and APM tools.
- Harden the platform with security teams, including image scanning, runtime protection, secret management, and ongoing regulatory compliance.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Tekton, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Argo Workflows.
- Develop and validate disaster-recovery and backup strategies for cluster state, etcd, and persistent workloads through failover and restore drills.
- Plan, test, and execute minor and major cluster upgrades with minimal workload disruption, including pre-upgrade validation and rollback strategies.
- Partner with application teams to right-size workloads, manage resource quotas, and tune cluster autoscaling for performance and cost efficiency.
- Improve platform tooling and developer experience by collecting internal user feedback and incorporating 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
