OpenShift Kubernetes Administrator - Fully Remote

Location: St. Louis

We're looking for a Senior Open Shift Kubernetes Administrator to help lead our cloud-native platform transformation. This is an opportunity to engineer, automate, and operate enterprise-scale Open Shift environments that power mission-critical applications.

You'll work with cutting-edge technologies, solve complex platform challenges, and influence the future direction of our Kubernetes strategy.

What You'll Do
As a senior member of our Kubernetes Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and automation of our Open Shift ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

· Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise Open Shift Kubernetes platforms deployed to our High-Performance Compute infrastructure.

· Manage large-scale Open Shift clusters using:
o Open Shift Console
o Open Shift CLI (oc)
o Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM)
o Infrastructure automation tools

· Design and implement automated deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management solutions.

· Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks using Ansible and scripting.

· Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, container, networking, and platform issues.

· Collaborate with developers to improve application reliability, observability, scalability, and performance.

· Implement enterprise security controls and platform hardening standards.

· Support high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-cluster architectures.

· Drive platform modernization initiatives and operational excellence through automation.

· Participate in architecture reviews and help define the future state of enterprise container platforms.

Required Qualifications

· 5+ years administering Kubernetes platforms in production environments.

· Deep expertise with Red Hat Open Shift.

· Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals including:
o Scheduling
o Networking
o Storage
o Ingress and load balancing
o Operators
o Cluster lifecycle management

· Experience with Ansible and automation frameworks.

· Experience with container technologies and image creation.

· Proficiency in shell scripting and at least one programming language such as Python or Go.

· Strong Linux administration skills, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

· Experience troubleshooting enterprise-scale platform issues.

· Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.