Software Developer (Cloud Engineer), Intermediate

Naval Nuclear Laboratory•West Mifflin, PA

About The Position

The Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) is looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift container platforms running mission-critical workloads across on-premises and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Kubernetes, containerization technologies, automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms, with a passion for building secure, scalable, and highly available containerized environments.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree from an accredited college or university in a related field and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

2-3 years of hands-on experience with container technologies, administration and support.
Experience Kubernetes architecture and workload management.
Knowledge of CI/CD tools.
Experience with automation tools.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
Familiarity with container image security.
Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift security features such as RBAC, network policies, pod security, secrets management.
Experience with Helm and Kustomize.
Strong ability to lead, and collaborate.

Responsibilities

Deploy, configure, and administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters across development, testing, and production environments.
Manage, monitor, and optimize Kubernetes workloads to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
Install, configure, and maintain OpenShift Operators for application deployment and lifecycle management.
Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines by integrating containerized applications into automated deployment workflows.
Monitor cluster health, resource utilization, and application performance using appropriate monitoring and logging tools.
Troubleshoot platform, networking, storage, and application issues to minimize downtime and improve reliability.
Implement security, compliance, and governance best practices for OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
Collaborate with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver reliable container platform solutions.
Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and platform standards.