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# Red Hat/OpenShift SRE

- **Company:** Anivas Tech LLC
- **Location:** Upper Marlboro, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Bash Shell, Information Systems, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Information Technology Operations, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, OpenShift, Role-Based Access Control, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Ansible, Prometheus, Datadog, Scripting, Istio, Grafana, Kubernetes Helm Charts, SC Clearance, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Patch Management, Devsecops, Docker
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/15_daabf5844

## About the Role

Anivas Tech is seeking a RH/OpenShift SRE to support our government agency IT operations. We are looking for a skilled professional with 3+ years of relevant experience who brings strong technical expertise and a commitment to delivering high-quality results in a mission-driven, high-visibility environment., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; 5 additional years of relevant experience accepted in lieu of degree

 * 3+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or upstream Kubernetes in a production environment
 * Experience with Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred)
 * Proficiency in container technologies (Docker/Podman) and Kubernetes core concepts
 * Experience with Helm charts, Operators, and OpenShift-native tooling
 * Familiarity with SRE practices: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems
 * Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or equivalent
 * Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration and incident escalation
 * Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or equivalent certification
 * Experience in a federal government or FedRAMP environment
 * Agile, SAFe, or DevSecOps methodology experience
 * Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh)
 * Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Tekton, or equivalent)

## Description

* Operate, maintain, and improve Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters supporting government agency workloads
 * Apply SRE principles including SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and reliability engineering practices to OpenShift environments
 * Respond to and lead incident management for container platform and application-layer issues, driving timely resolution
 * Automate operational tasks using Ansible, Helm, Operators, and scripting to reduce toil and improve platform consistency
 * Perform OpenShift cluster upgrades, patch management, and capacity planning in coordination with infrastructure and application teams
 * Implement and maintain observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Elasticsearch/EFK stack
 * Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to onboard workloads and optimize containerized application performance
 * Enforce platform security policies and ensure compliance with federal security standards using OCP RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SCCs
 * Develop and maintain runbooks, post-incident reviews, and platform documentation
 * Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to continuous reliability improvement initiatives
 * US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance


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