Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

Summary

Black Canyon Consulting LLC is seeking an OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to support application developers and operations for the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine. The role focuses on building and maintaining OpenShift clusters, supporting Kubernetes-based DevOps platforms, assisting with cloud and CI/CD technologies, and providing on-call support to internal developers and staff.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud or Linux experience
• 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
• Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc.)
• Linux network configuration
• Linux application containerization, especially Docker
• Attached network storage technologies
• Cloud computing environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Automated CI/CD pipelines
• Distributed systems design principles

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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
• 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

Nice to Haves

• Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud or Linux experience
• 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
• Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc.)
• Linux network configuration
• Linux application containerization, especially Docker
• Attached network storage technologies
• Cloud computing environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Automated CI/CD pipelines
• Distributed systems design principles

Benefits

• Full-time opportunity at NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work
• Flexible working hours
• Remote options
• On- and off-site training courses
• Conference attendance and tuition reimbursement