Platform Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering - SRE)

You will leverage deep technical expertise of container and virtual infrastructure, GitOps practices, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) automation, and infrastructure standardization and optimization. You have strong experience with on-premise and cloud infrastructure to include installation, configuration, administration, support and maintenance of IT software and hardware systems and internal databases for our enterprise clients. You will play a critical role in ensuring performance and resource availability of critical infrastructure supporting customers across Navy Federal Credit Union., * Manage and automate OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) and ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift) cluster upgrades, ensuring alignment with upstream releases and zero-downtime rolling updates

• Configure tools like OADP (OpenShift API for Data Protection) to handle backup, restore, and failover across on-prem OCP and ARO regions
• Monitor compute, storage, and networking capacity to prevent bottlenecks in hybrid Kubernetes environments
• Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) specifically for cluster control planes and underlying cloud resources.
• Use and tune frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to surface actionable alerts and track core signals like latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
• Participate in on-call rotations to triage cluster-level issues (e.g., node evictions, Distributed ETC Directory (ETCD) latency, certificate expirations)
• Manage continuous deployment pipelines using ArgoCD or Flux to ensure declarative, reproducible configurations for all cluster workloads
• Abstract underlying Kubernetes complexities through self-service portals, standardized namespaces, and automated CI/CD guardrails
• Consult with development teams to resolve deployment failures, routing, and pod-crash issues
• Enforce Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across environments, integrating with Active Directory or Azure Entra ID
• Implement platform-level security guardrails using OpenShift policies and Open Policy Agent (OPA) to automatically detect configuration drifts or vulnerabilities
• Integrate enterprise vaults or Azure Key Vault seamlessly with native OpenShift secrets
• Treat the platform as software by managing ARO clusters and underlying Azure resources using Terraform or Bicep
• Write automation scripts (Python, Go, or Ansible) to streamline common Day 2 configuration tasks like deploying custom operators, storage classes (e.g., ODF), and monitoring add-ons
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to improve platform reliability and developer experience using iterative Agile processes and practices
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures using Docs as Code
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on scalability, resiliency, and automation of both on-prem and cloud environments

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related roles
• Hands-on experience administering and supporting OpenShift or Kubernetes environments
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using Argo, Flux
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines with Tekton and GitHub Actions
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Servicers (AWS), Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Desired Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

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