OpenShift Staff Engineer

Kforce Inc is seeking an experienced OpenShift Staff Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team supporting a large-scale enterprise container platform environment. The role focuses on the administration, support, maintenance, and optimization of Red Hat OpenShift 4.x environments, emphasizing platform operations and application onboarding.

Responsibilities:

• Administer and support enterprise Red Hat OpenShift 4.x platforms
• Onboard and support new applications within the OpenShift environment
• Perform platform upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities
• Manage and maintain OpenShift operators
• Support and troubleshoot deployment automation workflows using ArgoCD
• Administer and support Portworx storage environments
• Diagnose and resolve platform, container, and application-related issues
• Collaborate with engineering, application, and infrastructure teams to ensure platform stability and reliability
• Participate in project planning, operational meetings, and platform initiatives
• Support scheduled maintenance windows and occasional after-hours upgrade activities

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience administering and supporting Red Hat OpenShift 4.x
• Strong Kubernetes and container platform operations experience in enterprise environments
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment methodologies
• Experience administering or supporting Portworx storage solutions
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production OpenShift/Kubernetes environments
• Experience working in enterprise infrastructure and cloud environments
• Strong understanding of platform operations, automation, and application lifecycle management
• Experience performing OpenShift upgrades, patching, and platform migrations
• Experience managing and maintaining OpenShift operators
• Experience onboarding enterprise applications to container platforms
• Experience with cloud-native technologies and modern platform engineering practices
• Background in Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Kubernetes Administration
• Ability to support occasional after-hours maintenance activities
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)