Red Hat/OpenShift SRE

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:

• Operate, maintain, and improve Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters supporting government agency workloads
• Apply SRE principles including SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and reliability engineering practices to OpenShift environments
• Respond to and lead incident management for container platform and application-layer issues, driving timely resolution
• Automate operational tasks using Ansible, Helm, Operators, and scripting to reduce toil and improve platform consistency
• Perform OpenShift cluster upgrades, patch management, and capacity planning in coordination with infrastructure and application teams
• Implement and maintain observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Elasticsearch/EFK stack
• Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to onboard workloads and optimize containerized application performance
• Enforce platform security policies and ensure compliance with federal security standards using OCP RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SCCs
• Develop and maintain runbooks, post-incident reviews, and platform documentation
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to continuous reliability improvement initiatives
• US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; 5 additional years of relevant experience accepted in lieu of degree
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or upstream Kubernetes in a production environment
• Experience with Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred)
• Proficiency in container technologies (Docker/Podman) and Kubernetes core concepts
• Experience with Helm charts, Operators, and OpenShift-native tooling
• Familiarity with SRE practices: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems
• Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or equivalent
• Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration and incident escalation
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or equivalent certification
• Experience in a federal government or FedRAMP environment
• Agile, SAFe, or DevSecOps methodology experience
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh)
• 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."