Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to work Hybrid remote/onsite supporting Fairfax, VA and/or Springfield, VA customer locations. Regular SCIF/onsite support is expected approximately 3-4 days per week, with additional onsite support as required for critical deployments, maintenance, or operational issues.
Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat OpenShift Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a large DoD program operating across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The SME will serve as a technical authority for the architecture, deployment, administration, optimization, security, sustainment, and troubleshooting of Red Hat OpenShift environments across multiple classification levels.
The successful candidate will coordinate with cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, Program and Project Management, Customer, and Partner teams. This is a hands-on SME role for an engineer capable of owning production OpenShift clusters, resolving complex platform failures, establishing technical standards, mentoring other engineers, and advising leadership on architecture, risk, and technical tradeoffs.
Responsibilities include:
- Architect, plan, deploy, administer, upgrade, optimize, and sustain Red Hat OpenShift environments across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure and applicable DoD impact/classification levels.
- Own OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup/restore, certificate management, operators, security, networking, storage, performance, and capacity management.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for production OpenShift failures and perform root cause analysis across control plane and worker nodes, operators, networking, storage, ingress, DNS, authentication/RBAC, certificates, registries, workload, resource constraints, and cluster health/performance.
- Support onboarding of customer and partner/vendor teams and coordinate with Program/Project Management and engineering teams to ensure appropriate resources, dependencies, and operational support.
- Implement and troubleshoot OpenShift/Kubernetes networking to include Services, Routes/Ingress, DNS, network policies, load balancing, and integration with enterprise networking and firewalls.
- Integrate and troubleshoot persistent storage using Storage Classes, Persistent Volumes/Claims, and enterprise/cloud storage platforms.
- Automate OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure and application configuration using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, Helm, and GitOps methodologies.
- Integrate OpenShift with enterprise CI/CD pipelines, container registries, artifact repositories, security scanning, and GitOps workflows.
- Maintain security compliance and execute remediation, patching, vulnerability management, and POA&M activities required to sustain applicable ATOs.
- Develop architecture, configuration, operating, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer documentation; cross train engineers and establish repeatable platform standards and procedures.
- Advise Government customers, project management, engineering teams, and leadership on OpenShift architecture, migrations, platform operations, technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommended solutions.
- Support OpenShift platforms hosting AI/ML, data intensive, and other mission requirements/lines of effort as required.
- Track relevant platform and industry developments and contribute to solutioning, capture, and proposal activities as needed.
Salary: $175,000-210,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred QualificationsRequired Skills:
- Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject contractual labor category requirements.
- Must posses an active TS security clearance and be eligible and willing to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph
- 7+ years of responsible and relevant infrastructure/platform engineering experience, including substantial hands on Kubernetes experiences and at least 3+ years of hands on production Red Hat OpenShift engineering/administration experience.
- Expertise designing, deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience operating OpenShift across enterprise cloud, on-premises, and/or hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Expertise with Kubernetes architecture, deployment, administration, workload management, and troubleshooting.
- Strong Linux systems administration experience with RHEL and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS).
- Hands on experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes environments using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, Helm, and/or GitOps methodologies.
- Experience implementing security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and configuration compliance in regulated or DoD environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and experience deploying or operating OpenShift/Kubernetes within AWS, Azure, or comparable enterprise cloud environments.
- Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex production platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and develop actional technical recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a technical escalation point person, mentor engineers, establish platform standards, and communicate technical risks and tradeoffs to customers and leadership.
- Strong customer focus and strong written, verbal, analytical and problem solving skills.
- DOD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level I or better (e.g., Security+).
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent directly relevant experience
- Active Top Secret security clearance
- Eligibility and willingness to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph
- 7 or more years of relevant infrastructure or platform engineering experience
- At least 3 years of hands-on production Red Hat OpenShift engineering or administration experience
- Substantial hands-on Kubernetes experience
- Production experience designing, deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting OpenShift clusters
- Experience operating OpenShift across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure
- Expertise with Kubernetes architecture, deployment, administration, workload management, and troubleshooting
- Strong Linux systems administration experience with RHEL and RHCOS
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, Helm, or GitOps methodologies
- Experience with security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and configuration compliance in regulated or DoD environments
- Strong cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Azure, or comparable enterprise cloud environments
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and develop technical recommendations independently
- Ability to serve as a technical escalation point, mentor engineers, establish platform standards, and communicate technical risks and tradeoffs
- Strong customer focus and written, verbal, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- DoD 8570-01M IAM Level I or higher certification, such as Security+
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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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