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Black Canyon Consulting

Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

Bethesda, MDHybrid
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
OpenShiftKubernetesGCPGKEAnthosGitLabGitLab CI/CDArgoCDIstioLinkerdDockerPrometheusGrafanaAnsiblePuppet
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