Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer

2-3 days remote per week. Candidates must be willing to travel to client locations in Reston, VA, and Washington, DC, if selected., QBA 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., * 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, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and recovery procedures.
• Coordinate with development, DevSecOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, and Red Hat technical resources.

• 8+ years of platform, infrastructure, DevOps/DevSecOps, Linux, or systems engineering experience.
• 5+ years of 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.

MANDATORY SKILLS:

• Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration and engineering.
• Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) implementation and support.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Linux administration, and container technologies.
• Kubernetes Operators, networking, storage, routes, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Platform monitoring, logging, health, performance, and resource utilization.
• Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and infrastructure automation.
• CI/CD pipeline integration, Jenkins, Git, and container registries.
• Bash and Python scripting.
• DevOps/DevSecOps integration and automated platform management.
• High-availability, mission-critical production environment support.
• Platform security, vulnerability remediation, patching, and certificate management.
• Backup, restoration, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required Public Trust suitability.

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS:

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator.
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE).
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Experience supporting SEC, EDGAR, or other federal systems.
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).
• Java/J2EE.
• Maven.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and Zero Trust requirements.
• Experience working with Red Hat support or consulting services., * 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