Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer
About The Position
Inadev is seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer to engineer, operate, secure, automate, and maintain the Red Hat OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) supporting the SEC’s mission-critical Legacy EDGAR environment. The engineer will provide a reliable, secure, highly available, and automated platform that enables application teams to consistently deploy and operate containerized applications. The role includes OpenShift platform engineering, automation, DevSecOps integration, monitoring, security, lifecycle management, application onboarding, and production support. The position requires a hybrid schedule of 1–3 days in Reston, Virginia, and client locations in the Washington, D.C. area as required. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, pass a 7-year background check, and be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government clearance and required Public Trust suitability. Salary is $170,000–$190,000, based on pertinent experience.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Must be willing to work a hybrid schedule (1–3 days) in Reston, VA, and client locations in the Washington, D.C. area as required.
- Ability to pass a 7-year background check and obtain/maintain a U.S. Government clearance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain required Public Trust suitability.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to prioritize and self-start; adaptability and flexibility as priorities shift.
- Enthusiasm and passion for learning and continuous improvement; openness to collaboration, feedback, and client requests.
- 8+ years of platform, infrastructure, DevOps/DevSecOps, Linux, or systems engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes experience in enterprise environments.
- Strong experience implementing and supporting Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, RHEL, containers, Operators, networking, storage, RBAC, monitoring, and logging.
- Experience with Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and infrastructure automation.
- Experience integrating OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Git, and container registries.
- Strong Linux administration and Bash/Python scripting skills.
- Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments.
- Experience with platform security, vulnerability remediation, patching, certificates, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
Nice To Haves
- Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, RHCE, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- Experience supporting SEC, EDGAR, or other federal systems.
- Experience with JBoss EAP, Java/J2EE, Jenkins, Git, and Maven.
- Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and Zero Trust requirements.
- Experience working with Red Hat support or consulting services.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, administer, and maintain enterprise Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes PaaS environments.
- Provide standardized, reusable platform services for application deployment and operations.
- Manage OpenShift clusters, Operators, projects/namespaces, containers, networking, routes, storage, security, certificates, and resource configurations.
- Automate platform provisioning, configuration, maintenance, validation, and recovery using Ansible, Bash, Python, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Integrate OpenShift with CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, container registries, source control, and deployment processes.
- Support application onboarding, deployments, configuration, troubleshooting, and runtime performance.
- Monitor platform availability, capacity, performance, health, logging, and resource utilization.
- Perform platform patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, and lifecycle management.
- Implement platform security controls consistent with applicable NIST, FISMA, Zero Trust, and SEC security requirements.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across OpenShift, Linux, containers, networking, storage, middleware, and application layers.
- Support backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and continuity-of-operations activities.
- Develop and maintain platform architecture documentation, configuration baselines, runbooks, SOPs, and recovery procedures.
- Coordinate with development, DevSecOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, and Red Hat technical resources.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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