SECRET Sr. OpenShift Consultant - Bare Metal Platform Deployment

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is seeking a Senior Open Shift Consultant with deep expertise in deploying and operating Red Hat Open Shift on bare metal in highly secure, mission‑critical environments, requiring an active U.S. Secret clearance or higher. This role is responsible for leading the end‑to‑end design, deployment, and operationalization of Open Shift clusters on physical infrastructure, including IPI and UPI installs, networking, storage, automation, and lifecycle management, often within air‑gapped or restricted networks.

The consultant will implement enterprise‑grade security and compliance controls such as STIGs, FIPS 140‑2, CIS benchmarks, and RMF requirements; establish Git Ops and infrastructure‑as‑code workflows using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Argo CD; configure monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery; and integrate CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, scalable application delivery. Serving as a trusted technical advisor, the Senior Open Shift Consultant will lead customer engagements, produce architecture and operational documentation, support ATO and audit efforts, and mentor platform and Dev Sec Ops  teams.

Qualified candidates typically have 7–10+ years of Linux or platform engineering experience, 5+ years with Kubernetes, 3–5+ years with Open Shift in production—specifically on bare metal—strong automation and security expertise, experience supporting DoD or other regulated environments, and the ability to travel to and operate within classified customer sites.

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• Must be willing to go to Oklahoma City, OK every other week, client will expense travel
• Secret Clearance (or higher level)
• 6+ years of overall experience in Kubernetes and Containerization technologies
• 4-5+ years of experience with Open Shift, including:
• Experience with Open Shift Bare Metal
• Experience with platform deployment on Open Shift
• Experience with migrating VMs to Open Shift
• 3+ years of CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab, Git Hub, Jenkins, etc) and Dev Ops experience
• Experience with ArgoCD