Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer

Razor is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a large DoD program operating across AWS GovCloud Azure Government classified cloud on-premises and hybrid environments. This individual will serve as a technical authority for the architecture deployment administration optimization security sustainment and troubleshooting of Red Hat OpenShift environments across multiple classification levels.
This is a hands-on SME role for an engineer capable of owning production OpenShift clusters resolving complex platform failures establishing technical standards mentoring engineers and advising customers and leadership on architecture risk and technical tradeoffs.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent directly relevant experience subject to contractual labor category requirements.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Active Top Secret clearance is required.
• Must be eligible and willing to obtain SCI access and a CI Polygraph.
• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is preferred.

Location & Work Arrangement:

• Fairfax Virginia and/or Springfield Virginia
• Hybrid work arrangement with regular SCIF/onsite support approximately 34 days per week.
• Additional onsite support may be required for critical deployments maintenance or operational issues.

Responsibilities:

• Architect deploy administer upgrade optimize and sustain Red Hat OpenShift environments across cloud on-premises and hybrid infrastructure.
• Own OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities including installation configuration upgrades patching backup and restore certificate management operators security networking storage performance and capacity management.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex production OpenShift failures and perform root-cause analysis across control plane and worker nodes operators networking storage ingress DNS authentication/RBAC certificates registries workloads and cluster health.
• Implement and troubleshoot OpenShift/Kubernetes networking including Services Routes/Ingress DNS network policies load balancing and enterprise networking/firewall integrations.
• Integrate and troubleshoot persistent storage using Storage Classes Persistent Volumes/Claims and enterprise or cloud storage platforms.
• Automate OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure and application configuration using Infrastructure as Code configuration management Helm and GitOps methodologies.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise CI/CD pipelines container registries artifact repositories security scanning and GitOps workflows.
• Maintain security compliance and execute remediation patching vulnerability management and POA&M activities supporting applicable Client.
• Develop architecture configuration operating troubleshooting and knowledge-transfer documentation.
• Establish repeatable platform standards and procedures and mentor/cross-train other engineers.
• Support onboarding of customer partner and vendor teams.
• Advise government customers engineering teams project leadership and senior leadership on OpenShift architecture migrations platform operations technical risks and recommended solutions.
• Support OpenShift platforms hosting AI/ML data-intensive and other mission workloads.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of relevant infrastructure/platform engineering experience including substantial hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• At least 3 years of hands-on production Red Hat OpenShift engineering/administration experience.
• Expertise designing deploying administering upgrading and troubleshooting production Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes architecture administration workload management and troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience with RHEL and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS).
• Experience operating OpenShift across enterprise cloud on-premises and/or hybrid infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code configuration management Helm and/or GitOps.
• Experience with security hardening vulnerability remediation patching and configuration compliance within regulated or DoD environments.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience including deploying or operating OpenShift/Kubernetes within AWS Azure or comparable enterprise cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex production platform issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Experience serving as a technical escalation point mentoring engineers and establishing platform standards.
• Strong written verbal analytical customer-facing and problem-solving skills.
• DoD 8570-01M IAM Level I or higher certification such as Security.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Red Hat certification such as Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or RHCE.
• Experience managing OpenShift clusters across bare-metal hybrid multi-cloud and air-gapped environments.
• Experience with Ansible Terraform Helm Argo CD/OpenShift GitOps and GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience with enterprise container registries such as Red Hat Quay Harbor GitLab Container Registry or AWS ECR.
• Experience with RMF STIGs POA&M remediation and ATO sustainment.
• Experience with OpenShift Data Foundation NFS cloud-native storage or comparable enterprise storage platforms.
• Experience supporting GPU-enabled Kubernetes/OpenShift environments and containerized AI/ML workloads.
• Experience working within classified cloud environments and across multiple DoD impact/classification levels.
• Experience with AWS Azure GCP or OCI cloud-management environments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD GitOps and DevSecOps operations within OpenShift environments.

Razor is an EEO Employer
Razor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.
Razor Benefits Overview
Razor offers a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical dental and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; paid time off and holidays; a 401(k) plan; and professional development opportunities. Benefits offerings may vary based on position and employment status.