Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to work Hybrid remote/onsite position supporting the Fairfax, VA corporate office and/or Springfield, VA customer site.
The candidate must be able to support work within a SCIF and other Government locations as mission requirements dictate. Onsite support may be required up to 4 days per week, including additional support for critical deployments or operational issues.
Note: This position is contingent upon additional funding.
Job Description:
Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer to support the development, integration, operation, and sustainment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud solutions for a Department of Defense (DoD) customer.
The engineer will work as a part of an integrated cloud and infrastructure team supporting Red Hat OpenShift environments across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure. The role supports platform operations, application onboarding, security compliance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and sustainment across multiple environments and classification levels.
This is an execution focused engineering role for a candidate with practical OpenShift and Kubernetes experience who can independently execute established engineering and operational tasks while collaborating with senior engineers and OpenShift SMEs on complex architecture, migrations, and escalated technical issues.
Responsibilities include:
- Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift environments under established architecture, engineering standards, and security requirements.
- Support cluster administration including configuration, upgrades, patching, node management, networking, storage, security, monitoring, logging, back-up/recovery, and performance troubleshooting.
- Support Kubernetes/OpenShift workload including projects/namespaces, pods, deployments, services, routes/ingress, ConfigMaps, persistent storage, resource limits, and role based access controls.
- Support onboarding and migration of customer and vendor/partner applications into OpenShift environment in coordination with development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
- Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, container, Linux, networking, storage, and application platform issues; resolve issues within assigned responsibility and escalate complex platform or architectural issues to senior engineers/SMEs.
- Support Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)0, and Red Hat CoreOS administration associated with OpenShift platform operations.
- Support CI/CD, GitOps, and DevOps workflows using GitLab or comparable tooling to enable repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
- Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps workflows, or comparable tooling.
- Support OpenShift operations across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified environments, including AWS GovCloud and Azure Government.
- Support security compliance including patching, vulnerability remediation, STIG implementation, configuration compliance, POA&M remediation, logging, access controls, and ATO sustainment.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, and performance and assist with proactive identification and resolution of operational issues.
- Develop and maintain system configurations, SOPs, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, diagrams , and knowledge management/documentation.
- Participate in change management, maintenance windows, incident response, release activities, and operational support.
- Collaborate with senior engineers, OpenShift SMEs, program and project management, cybersecurity, customers, Government representatives and vendor partner teams.
- Provide technical input based on direct platform experience while escalating major architecture and design decisions to senior technical leadership.
- Support knowledge sharing and cross training within the cloud and infrastructure engineering team.
Salary: $140,000-190,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Must be a US Citizen as required by contract.
- Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject to contractual labor category requirements.
- Active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
- 3+ years of IT infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, container platform, or cloud engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of direct, hands on experience supporting Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments.
- Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration, upgrades/patching, troubleshooting, networking, storage, security, and monitoring.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes resources including pods, deployments, services, name spaces/projects, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, ingress/routes, resource management, and RBAC.
- Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS.
- Experience troubleshooting containerized workloads and platform issues across application, compute, networking, storage, and operating system layers.
- Working knowledge of container images, registries, runtime fundamentals, and Docker/Podman or comparable tooling.
- Experience with Git-based workflows and familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps concepts; GitLab experience preferred.
- Working knowledge of automation and IAC concepts using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps, or comparable tooling.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, certificates/TLS, and Kubernetes/OpenShift networking.
- Understanding of least privilege, RBAC, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and logging/monitoring.
- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, customer service, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to independently execute assigned engineering and operational tasks while recognizing when complex issues require escalation.
- Must meet applicable DoD cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements for the position (e.g., DoD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level 1 or better).
Skills Required
- Must be a US Citizen as required by contract.
- Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent directly relevant experience (or equivalent experience).
- Active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.
- 3+ years IT infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, container platform, or cloud engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of direct, hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments.
- Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes: workload deployment, upgrades/patching, networking, storage, security, and monitoring.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes resources (pods, deployments, services, namespaces/projects, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, ingress/routes, resource management, RBAC).
- Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL and/or Red Hat CoreOS.
- Experience troubleshooting containerized workloads and platform issues across application, compute, networking, storage, and OS layers.
- Working knowledge of container images, registries, runtime fundamentals, and Docker or Podman.
- Experience with Git-based workflows and familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps concepts.
- GitLab experience (preferred).
- Working knowledge of automation and Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, scripting, GitOps, or comparable tooling.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, and certificates/TLS.
- Understanding of least privilege, RBAC, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and logging/monitoring.
- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, customer service, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to independently execute assigned engineering and operational tasks and escalate complex issues appropriately.
- Must meet applicable DoD cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements (e.g., DoD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level 1 or better).
- Ability to support work within a SCIF and other Government locations; onsite support may be required up to 4 days per week.
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
