Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the hands-on technical lead, setting platform engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, guiding technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and managing dependencies across teams.

• Oversee design, configuration, integration, upgrades, patching, monitoring, capacity planning, compliance management, and troubleshooting for Red Hat OpenShift.

• Manage requirements for Linux, compute, networking, and storage.

• Convert customer and operational needs into system designs, implementation plans, and technical acceptance criteria.

• Assess reliability, security, performance, supportability, cost, and risk; document decisions and validate solutions prior to production deployment.

• Spearhead GitOps adoption, including repository structures, branching, peer review, declarative configurations, environment promotion, reconciliation, and rollback procedures.

• Create, develop, review, and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and routine operations.

• Implement testing, documentation, and change-control practices.

• Provide technical guidance for CI/CD pipeline design and enhancement across development, testing, and production environments.

• Collaborate with developers on container builds, deployment configurations, resource requirements, and runtime troubleshooting.

• Act as the senior technical escalation point for Linux, OpenShift, cloud infrastructure, and deployment pipelines; lead root-cause analysis and corrective measures.

• Utilize metrics, logs, reporting, and capacity trends to identify risks and enhance reliability, performance, resource utilization, and operational efficiency.

• Incorporate compliance requirements and access controls into platform designs and automation processes.

• Create architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and implementation and recovery plans.

• Facilitate knowledge transfer and provide technical mentoring.

• Deliver estimates, identify dependencies and risks, sequence work through Agile planning, and communicate decisions and status updates to teams and clients.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience; relevant experience may substitute for a degree.

• Proven hands-on technical management experience, including design decisions, technical reviews, mentoring, and delivering initiatives across infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud, and DevOps.

• Practical experience in engineering, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting production Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Kubernetes environments, including upgrades, capacity management, and operational reliability.

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and compute, networking, and storage services that support enterprise platforms and containerized workloads.

• Strong background in Linux systems administration, specifically with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), covering system configuration, troubleshooting, and scripting.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing GitOps practices and delivering IaC and automation with Git version control, peer review, automated validation, and repeatable deployment processes.

• Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language, capable of developing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining automation code and operational tools.

• Experience in designing, building, and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Tekton.

• Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and experience assisting development teams with container build, deployment, configuration, and runtime challenges.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills using metrics, logs, and capacity or performance data.

• Ability to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs, collaborate across teams, plan and prioritize tasks, and deliver secure, documented, and supportable solutions.

• Capability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance, or higher.

• Participation in scheduled on-call rotations, including after-hours, weekend, and holiday support as necessary.

• Acquire a baseline 8140 certification (IAT Level II: CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) within three months of hire.

• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD are preferred.

• Preferred: experience with Azure-native architectures and cloud PaaS/SaaS environments.

• Preferred: experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.

• Preferred: familiarity with ROSA, EKS, AKS, and other cloud-based Kubernetes solutions.

• Preferred: DoD Secret clearance and 8140 Level II Security+ certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.