RedHat OpenShift Engineer (Cloud Engineer)
RAMTEC LLC & SSA LLC has a need for a RedHat OpenShift Engineer to support NGA in Springfield, VA. This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator. Outstanding compensation, benefits and company culture. An active Top-Secret Clearance is required.
The Cloud Engineer is responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; providing customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.
An active Top-Secret Clearance is required.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift
- Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
- Produce detailed documentation
- Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS
- Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID
- Automate and optimize service deployments
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- 3+ years IT experience
- 3+ years experience with Platform as a Service Offerings (e.g. RedHat OpenShift, Tanzu, etc)
Required Skills:
- Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud based providers
- Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
- Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
- Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
- Strong Troubleshooting skills
- Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
- Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
- Strong communication skills
Desired Skills:
- Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters
- Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform
- Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java
- Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare)
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
Certifications:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator
Ramtec, SSA and it's clients are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.