Platform Engineer (OpenShift/Kubernetes)

Salary: $165,000 - 215,000 per year Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph, or the ability to obtain a CI polygraph, are required.
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems administration, DevOps, infrastructure, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may substitute for a degree, with additional experience commensurate with the education requirement.
• Production experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, including several of the following: cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, Operators, node pools, ingress, registries, and troubleshooting.
• Experience automating infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, scripting, or GitOps.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity management, and operational runbook development.
• Ability to work effectively with geographically distributed operations and development teams and communicate clearly with customers and teams in written and oral settings.
• Willingness to work in a SCIF environment up to 90% of the time or as needed, including occasional on-call or after-hours onsite support.
• Preferred: Experience integrating OpenShift with enterprise storage; familiarity with NetApp ONTAP, Astra Trident, NFS, iSCSI, or CSI-based storage.
• Preferred: Security hardening and compliance experience in restricted, disconnected, or classified environments.
• Preferred: Scripting or programming skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Preferred: Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP; networking, security, and Linux system administration; hybrid or multi-cloud architectures; SRE practices; geospatial technology; or military/intelligence environments and IC PED systems.
• Preferred: CompTIA Security+ or comparable certification for privileged user access.

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for containerized application delivery.
• Implement infrastructure as code.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, and security; respond to incidents and optimize systems.
• Develop and maintain platform tooling, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• Partner with development, security, operations, storage, and network teams to improve platform usability and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and governance standards.
• Communicate effectively with multidisciplinary SAFe Agile teams and explain technical concepts and ideas.

• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• GitHub
• GitLab
• GitOps
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• NFS
• OpenShift
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• NodeJS

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We are Vantor, advancing spatial intelligence to help decision makers and operators understand current conditions and prepare for what comes next. In this platform engineering role, you will support multi-site Red Hat OpenShift clusters and NetApp-backed storage services, improving reliability, lifecycle management, automation, security, and recovery for mission-critical workloads in secure or disconnected environments. The position is onsite and may involve work in a SCIF. The advertised base salary range is $165,000–$215,000, with starting pay determined by job-related factors and location. Our total rewards include a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and equal opportunity. The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.

last updated 40 week of 2026