Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

Bethesda, MD. Posted 49 months ago

The role

This person will support application developers and operations for the National Center for Biotechnology Information. They will assist internal developers with transitioning legacy software development and deployment to a modern DevOps platform.

What you will do

Build and maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters
Assist internal developers with transitioning legacy software development and deployment
Provide on-call support to NCBI's internal developers and other staff

Required qualifications

In-depth knowledge/experience with building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift clusters
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
Experience creating processes, procedures and SOP documentation

Nice to have

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

Benefits

flexible working hours
remote options
on- and off-site training courses
conference attendance and tuition reimbursement

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking Openshift/Kubernetes Engineer to join our systems team to support application developers and operations for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health.