Description:
Anivas Tech is seeking a RH/OpenShift SRE to support our government agency IT operations. We are looking for a skilled professional with 3+ years of relevant experience who brings strong technical expertise and a commitment to delivering high-quality results in a mission-driven, high-visibility environment.
Requirements:
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Operate, maintain, and improve Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters supporting government agency workloads
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Apply SRE principles including SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and reliability engineering practices to OpenShift environments
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Respond to and lead incident management for container platform and application-layer issues, driving timely resolution
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Automate operational tasks using Ansible, Helm, Operators, and scripting to reduce toil and improve platform consistency
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Perform OpenShift cluster upgrades, patch management, and capacity planning in coordination with infrastructure and application teams
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Implement and maintain observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Elasticsearch/EFK stack
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Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to onboard workloads and optimize containerized application performance
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Enforce platform security policies and ensure compliance with federal security standards using OCP RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SCCs
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Develop and maintain runbooks, post-incident reviews, and platform documentation
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Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to continuous reliability improvement initiatives
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US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; 5 additional years of relevant experience accepted in lieu of degree
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3+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or upstream Kubernetes in a production environment
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Experience with Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred)
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Proficiency in container technologies (Docker/Podman) and Kubernetes core concepts
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Experience with Helm charts, Operators, and OpenShift-native tooling
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Familiarity with SRE practices: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems
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Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or equivalent
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Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration and incident escalation
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Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or equivalent certification
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Experience in a federal government or FedRAMP environment
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Agile, SAFe, or DevSecOps methodology experience
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Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh)
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Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Tekton, or equivalent)
"Anivas Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected characteristics as defined by law."
