Red Hat OpenShift Subject Matter Expert

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking a highly skilled System Engineer to serve as a senior technical lead and Red Hat Open Shift Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for enterprise Kubernetes platforms, Dev Sec Ops , and cloud-native modernization. The SE-4 Cloud Dev Ops Engineer serves as the technical authority for the FAA's enterprise container platform, leading the design, implementation, automation, security, and operational excellence of cloud-native infrastructure based on Red Hat Open Shift.

This position is responsible for architecting scalable, highly available, secure Kubernetes environments that support mission‑critical FAA applications across cloud and hybrid infrastructures.

$170,000 - $180,000

Essential Job Functions may include (but are not limited to) the following:
The following duties are considered essential to the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

• Serve as the FAA technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform (OCP).
• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain highly available Open Shift clusters across AWS Gov Cloud, Azure Government, and on‑premises environments.
• Develop enterprise standards, governance, and operational procedures for Open Shift deployments.
• Manage cluster upgrades, lifecycle management, scaling, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Configure Operators, Operator Hub, Machine Sets, Machine Config Pools , Routes, Ingress Controllers, Storage Classes, and networking components.
• Implement multi‑cluster management using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).
• Support Open Shift Virtualization where applicable.
• Design Kubernetes architectures following industry best practices.
• Manage name spaces, RBAC, quotas, network policies, secrets, service accounts, persistent storage, and workload scheduling.
• Configure:
  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
  • Cluster Autoscaling
  • Pod Security Standards
  • Resource limits
  • Stateful workloads
  • Service Mesh (Istio/Open Shift Service Mesh)
  • Troubleshoot complex cluster, networking, storage, and application issues.
• Design and implement enterprise CI/CD pipelines supporting secure software delivery.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and Git Ops methodologies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration management, and environment consistency.

Integrate Git Ops platforms such as Argo CD or Flux for declarative application deployment

A successful candidate will have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience. (Master’s degree preferred).
• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, Dev Ops, systems engineering, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS or comparable enterprise cloud platforms.

Extensive hands‑on experience with Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Work Location:
  
  Remote
• Position is:
  Remote
• Work Hours:
  
  40
• Travel: 0%
• Background check:
  Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

Extended Computer Use:
Regular and prolonged periods of working at a computer terminal.

• Mobility:
  Ability to move around the office environment to access computer hardware, networking equipment, and server rooms.
• Dexterity:
  Manual dexterity and visual acuity to operate…