Role overview

Pay Range: $46.00hr - $51.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking a hands-on platform engineer with deep Red Hat OpenShift administration experience and practical expertise building and operating AWS EKS environments. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, possesses a strong automation-first mindset, works independently while collaborating across engineering teams, and comfortably leads troubleshooting efforts in critical production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Administer and support large-scale Red Hat OpenShift environments.
Perform cluster upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, and platform maintenance.
Troubleshoot cluster, node, networking, storage, and application deployment issues.
Manage OpenShift Operators, MachineConfig, RBAC, SCCs, monitoring, and logging solutions.
Support onboarding of application teams onto the platform.
Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
Design, deploy, and manage Amazon EKS clusters in AWS.
Implement and maintain EKS networking, IAM integration, security controls, and observability solutions.
Define and implement platform operating models, governance controls, and platform best practices.
Support deployment patterns using Helm, Kubernetes manifests, and Infrastructure as Code.
Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Architecture teams on EKS platform evolution.
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and cloud-native automation tooling.
Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.
Support GitOps-based deployment approaches using Argo CD or similar technologies.
Automate operational tasks, health checks, validation, compliance reporting, and platform deployments.
Contribute to platform engineering standards, documentation, and reusable deployment patterns.

Security & Compliance:

Implement Kubernetes and OpenShift security best practices.
Support vulnerability remediation and platform hardening initiatives.
Integrate container security scanning, secrets management, audit logging, and compliance controls.
Ensure platform services meet enterprise security and regulatory requirements.