Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer

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Job Title: Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer

Job Number: QBA1026-1

Position Type: Fill-time

Location: Washington DC Metro Area

Days Remote: Hybrid — 2-3 days

Position Summary:
Inadev is seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer to design administer secure automate and maintain the Red Hat OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) supporting the SEC Legacy EDGAR program.
The engineer will ensure a reliable secure highly available and automated platform that enables application teams to deploy and operate containerized applications consistently. The role focuses on OpenShift platform engineering infrastructure automation DevSecOps integration monitoring security lifecycle management application onboarding and production support.

Security Requirement: Public Trust or ability to obtain.
Key Responsibilities:

• Engineer administer and maintain enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes PaaS environments.
• Develop and maintain standardized reusable platform services for application deployment and operations.
• Manage OpenShift clusters Operators projects/namespaces containers networking routes storage security controls certificates and resource configurations.
• Automate platform provisioning configuration maintenance validation and recovery using Ansible Bash Python and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Integrate OpenShift with CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines source control systems container registries 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 maintenance.
• Implement security controls aligned with applicable NIST FISMA Zero Trust and SEC security requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving OpenShift Linux containers networking storage middleware and application layers.
• Support backup restoration disaster recovery and continuity-of-operations activities.
• Maintain platform architecture documentation configuration baselines runbooks standard operating procedures (SOPs) and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with development DevSecOps infrastructure cybersecurity and operations teams as well as Red Hat technical resources.

Minimum Experience:

• 8 years of experience in platform engineering infrastructure engineering DevOps/DevSecOps Linux administration or systems engineering.
• 5 years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing and supporting Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities.
• Experience with Ansible or 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 certificate management backup/recovery and disaster recovery.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust suitability.

Mandatory Skills:

• Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration and engineering.
• Enterprise PaaS implementation and support.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Linux administration.
• Containers Kubernetes Operators networking routes and storage.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) monitoring and logging.
• Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• CI/CD integration Jenkins Git and container registries.
• Bash and Python scripting.
• DevOps/DevSecOps integration.

Non-technical Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship.
• High-availability platform operations and production troubleshooting.
• Platform security vulnerability remediation patching and certificate management.
• Backup recovery and disaster recovery.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust suitability.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience supporting SEC EDGAR or other federal systems.
• Experience with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).
• Knowledge of 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.