Black Canyon Consulting LLC ยท 10 hours ago
Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer
Bethesda, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid LevelBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking an Openshift/Kubernetes Engineer to join their systems team supporting application developers and operations for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. The role involves building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift clusters, supporting internal developers, and providing scalable solutions for application deployment and operations.
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Responsibilities
Provide on-call support to NCBI's internal developers and other staff
Assist internal developers with transitioning legacy software development and deployment to the new DevOps platform
Build and maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters
Work with Kubernetes and GCP cloud services, including GKE and Anthos
Utilize GitLab and GitLab CI/CD for development processes
Familiarize with service-mesh technologies like Istio and Linkerd
Create processes, procedures and SOP documentation
Qualification
Required
In-depth knowledge/experience with building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Merely 'using' OpenShift is insufficient
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with GCP cloud services, including GKE and Anthos
Experience with Gitlab and especially Gitlab CI/CD
ArgoCD
Familiarity with service-mesh technologies: Istio, Linkerd, etc
Provide on-call support to NCBI's internal developers and other staff
BS degree in a STEM field, or equivalent experience
Customer-focused, team-oriented disposition
Good systems debugging skills
Comfortable with the Linux environment or UNIX CLI
Experience with some programming or scripting language
Have experience creating processes, procedures and SOP documentation
General understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols
Initiative to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion
Comfortable dealing with users with varying levels of IT knowledge
Eager to learn new technologies
Strong communication and soft skills to interface with customers, peers and management
Good judgement, sense of integrity, and responsibility
Preferred
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud or Linux experience
Experience with Service Reliability Engineering in any capacity
Linux systems administration
Automated CI servers, especially TeamCity and/or GitLab
Automation programming/scripting in any of: bash, Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, Perl
Automated configuration management, such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, bcfg2, cfengine, etc. Puppet is preferred
Version control systems, especially git
Service Mesh technologies (e.g., linkerd, Istio)
Configuring or using monitoring and alerting technologies (TIGK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, OpsGenie)
Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office suite
GitOps tools, especially ArgoCD
Google Anthos
Understanding of Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc.)
Understanding of Linux network configuration
Understanding of Linux application containerization, especially Docker
Understanding of attached network storage technologies
Understanding of cloud computing environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Understanding of automated CI/CD pipelines
Understanding of distributed systems design principles
Benefits
Flexible working hours
Remote options
On- and off-site training courses
Conference attendance
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Black Canyon Consulting LLC
Black Canyon Consulting, LLC (BCC) is a privately held, Woman-Owned Small Business, whose team of professionals bring over 125 years of experience providing innovative, tactical, and strategic Program and IT Management Support Services.
Founded in 2017
51-200 employees
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