Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer

Description

Position Summary:

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.

Key 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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Inadev Corporation does not discriminate against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, or national origin

INTEGRITY AND COMPLIANCE NOTICE:

All information provided by applicants must be complete, truthful, and accurate. Any intentional misrepresentation of skills, experience, credentials, or identity may result in removal from consideration for this and future employment opportunities.

For positions supporting U.S. federal government contracts, applicants may be subject to background investigations and employment eligibility verification in accordance with federal regulations. Providing false information during this process may be subject to review and action as required under applicable federal laws and security regulations.

Inadev is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a federal contractor committed to compliance with all applicable EEO, OFCCP, and federal hiring standards.

Requirements

Non-Technical Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be willing to work a HYBRID Schedule (1-3 Days) in Reston, VA & 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
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Must be able to prioritize and self-start.
• Must be adaptable/flexible as priorities shift.
• Must be enthusiastic and have passion for learning and constant improvement.
• Must be open to collaboration, feedback and client asks.
• Must enjoy working with a vibrant team of outgoing personalities.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of platform, infrastructure, DevOps/DevSecOps, Linux, or systems engineering experience.
• 5+ years 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required Public Trust suitability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

 Primary Technical Stack:

• Red Hat OpenShift
• Kubernetes
• RHEL
• Ansible
• Containers
• Jenkins
• Git
• Bash
• Python
• CI/CD
• DevSecOps 
• JBoss EAP
• Monitoring
• Logging
• PaaS