This role targets a Red Hat OpenShift Developer with TS/SCI clearance and Polygraph to support government activities in Chantilly, Virginia. The position focuses on OpenShift/Kubernetes, application development, and secure DevOps practices.
Role Summary
As a Red Hat OpenShift Developer, you will contribute to OpenShift and Kubernetes deployments, build and maintain microservices, and enable secure DevOps pipelines for government projects based at the Chantilly site.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, certifications or training, or work experience.
- 7+ years of related experience.
- Expertise with Red Hat OpenShift.
- Kubernetes Essentials: Pods, deployments, services, replicasets, configmaps/secrets, namespaces, ingress; YAML manifest authoring; kubectl commands.
- Storage and Networking: Persistent volumes (PV/PVC, CSI Drivers), service discovery, OVN-Kubernetes for pod communication.
- OpenShift Command Line Interface: login, oc new-project, oc new-app, oc expose, oc rsh/logs, oc adm policy for RBAC.
- Application Development: Microservices in Java, Node.js, Python or Go; REST APIs; YAML for Kubernetes resources.
- Web and client/server programming using Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML and CSS; Spring Boot.
- Frontend frameworks: Vue, React or Angular; FS Maximo.
- Security clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Technologies
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- YAML
- OpenShift CLI
- Java, Node.js, Python, Go
- REST APIs, Spring Boot
- Vue, React, Angular
- FS Maximo
- Git (GitHub/GitLab), Gradle, Maven, Jenkins
- WebSphere, Tomcat
- Podman, Ansible
- Bash, Linux, Windows
- Hibernate, JPA
- Jira, Confluence
- HTML, CSS
Benefits
Your Impact
You will contribute to national safety by applying your OpenShift and software development expertise to protect the country from threats, delivering reliable solutions for government operations.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, certifications or training, or work experience.
- 7+ years of related experience.
- Required skills: Red Hat OpenShift.
- Required skills: Kubernetes Essentials as listed above.
- Required skills: Storage & Networking as listed above.
- Required skills: OpenShift CLI as listed above.
- Required skills: Application Development with microservices in Java/Node.js/Python/Go; REST APIs; Kubernetes resource definitions.
- Required skills: Web and client/server programming with Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
- Required skills: Spring Boot, frontend frameworks (Vue/React/Angular), FS Maximo.
- Required clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Desired Skills and Abilities
- Maximo Application Suite skills (MAS): cluster administration, deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management.
- OpenShift cluster administration: installing, configuring, maintaining OpenShift 4.16+ clusters.
- Container/Pod management: deploying and scaling containerized applications.
- MAS Operator Lifecycle management: understanding operators for MAS components.
- Scripting and automation: Bash or Ansible for Day 2 operations.
- Security: RBAC, secrets, and security context constraints (SCCs).
- Hands-on experience upgrading Spring Boot and Hibernate/JPA across versions.
- Linux or Windows systems with shell scripting; build automation with Gradle, Maven, Jenkins.
- Experience with WebSphere or Tomcat; Podman for rootless containers.
- Experience in an Agile development environment; Jira, Confluence; Git (GitHub/GitLab).
- Familiarity with customer security requirements and compliance processes.
Desired Certifications
- Red Hat Cloud-native Java Developer (EX378) or earlier EX283
- Red Hat OpenShift Administrator (EX280)
- Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) for Linux
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD/CAK)
Location
Chantilly, VA – customer site
Travel Required
Less than 10%
Citizenship
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefits Information
The likely salary range for this position is USD 161,500 - 218,500 per year. This is not a guarantee of compensation; final salary is based on experience, location, and contractual requirements and could fall outside the stated range.
About Our Work
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