Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Engineer SME

Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat Open Shift Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to work Hybrid remote/onsite supporting Fairfax, VA and/or Springfield, VA customer location.

Regular SCIF/onsite support is expected approximately 3-4 days per week, with additional onsite support as required for critical deployments, maintenance, or operational issues.

Note:

This position is contingent upon additional funding.

Everforth ECS is seeking a Red Hat Open Shift Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a large DoD program operating across AWS Gov Cloud, Azure Government, classified cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

The SME will serve as a technical authority for the architecture, deployment, administration, optimization, security, sustainment, and troubleshooting of Red Hat Open Shift environments across multiple classification levels.

The successful candidate will coordinate with cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, Program and Project Management, Customer, and Partner teams.

This is a hands‑on SME role for an engineer capable of owning production Open Shift clusters, resolving complex platform failures, establishing technical standards, mentoring other engineers, and advising leadership on architecture, risk, and technical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities include:

Architect, plan, deploy, administer, upgrade, optimize, and sustain Red Hat Open Shift environments across cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid infrastructure and applicable DoD impact/classification levels.

Own Open Shift cluster lifecycle activities including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup/restore, certificate management, operators, security, networking, storage, performance, and capacity management.

Serve as the senior escalation point for production Open Shift failures and perform root cause analysis across control plane and worker nodes, operators, networking, storage, ingress, DNS, authentication/RBAC, certificates, registries, workload, resource constraints, and cluster health/performance.

Support onboarding of customer and partner/vendor teams and coordinate with Program/Project Management and engineering teams to ensure appropriate resources, dependencies, and operational support.

Implement and troubleshoot Open Shift/Kubernetes networking to include Services, Routes/Ingress, DNS, network policies, load balancing, and integration with enterprise networking and firewalls.

Integrate and troubleshoot persistent storage using Storage Classes, Persistent Volumes/Claims, and enterprise/cloud storage platforms.

Automate Open Shift/Kubernetes infrastructure and application configuration using Infrastructure as code, configuration management, Helm, and Git Ops methodologies.

Integrate Open Shift with enterprise CI/CD pipelines, container registries, artifact repositories, security scanning, and Git Ops workflows.

Maintain security compliance and execute remediation, patching, vulnerability management, and POA&M activities required to sustain applicable ATOs.

Develop architecture, configuration, operating, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer documentation; cross train engineers and establish repeatable platform standards and procedures.

Advise Government customers, project management, engineering teams, and leadership on Open Shift architecture, migrations, platform operations, technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommended solutions.

Support Open Shift platforms hosting AI/ML, data intensive, and other mission requirements/lines of effort as required.

Track relevant platform and industry developments and con tribute to solutioning, capture, and proposal activities as needed.

Required Skills:

Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent directly relevant experience, subject contractual labor category requirements.

Must posses an active TS security clearance and be eligible and willing to obtain SCI access and a CI polygraph.

7+ years of responsible and relevant infrastructure/platform engineering experience, including substantial hands on Kubernetes experiences and at least 3+ years of hands on production Red Hat Open Shift engineering/administration experience.

Expertise designing, deploying, administering, upgrading,…