# Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

**Company:** [Black Canyon Consulting](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/blackcanyonconsulting)
**Location:** Bethesda, MD
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Skills:** Openshift, Kubernetes, GCP, GKE, Anthos, GitLab, Gitlab Ci/Cd, Argo CD, Istio, Linkerd, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible, Puppet
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Builds and maintains Red Hat OpenShift clusters on GCP for NCBI's DevOps platform. Supports developers with Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, service mesh, and on-call troubleshooting in a hybrid environment.

## Job Description

## Required 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.
- Provide on-call support to NCBI's internal developers and other staff

## Educational Requirements
- 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 Experience & Skill sets
- 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.)
  - 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

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