Red Hat OpenShift Engineer

ECS Tech Inc•Fairfax, VA

13h•$140,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Engineer to support the development, integration, operation, and sustainment of artificial intelligence and cloud solutions for a Department of Defense customer. The engineer will join an integrated cloud and infrastructure team supporting Red Hat OpenShift across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure. The role covers platform operations, application onboarding, security compliance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and sustainment across multiple environments and classification levels. This is an execution-focused engineering role for someone with practical OpenShift and Kubernetes experience who can independently carry out established engineering and operational tasks while collaborating with senior engineers and OpenShift subject matter experts on complex architecture, migrations, and escalated technical issues. The role supports a hybrid/onsite position associated with the Fairfax, Virginia corporate office and/or Springfield, Virginia customer site. The candidate must be able to work within a SCIF and other government locations as mission requirements dictate. Onsite support may be required up to four days per week, with additional support for critical deployments or operational issues.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen as required by the 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.
At least 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, namespaces/projects, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, ingress/routes, resource management, and RBAC.
Linux administration experience; RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS experience preferred.
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.
Working knowledge of automation and infrastructure-as-code 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, such as DoD 8570-01M certification at IAM Level 1 or better.
Must be able to support work within a SCIF and other government locations as mission requirements dictate.

Nice To Haves

GitLab experience preferred.
Linux administration experience with RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS preferred.
Equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered in place of a Bachelor of Science degree, subject to contractual labor category requirements.

Responsibilities

Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift environments in accordance with established architecture, engineering standards, and security requirements.
Support cluster administration, including configuration, upgrades, patching, node management, networking, storage, security, monitoring, logging, backup and recovery, and performance troubleshooting.
Support Kubernetes and OpenShift workloads, 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 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 or SMEs.
Support Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 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 help proactively identify and resolve 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.