Job Description
Description Anivas Tech is seeking a RH/OpenShift SRE to support our government agency IT operations. We are looking for a skilled professional with 3+ years of relevant experience who brings strong technical expertise and a commitment to delivering high-quality results in a mission-driven, high-visibility environment. Requirements Operate, maintain, and improve Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters supporting government agency workloads Apply SRE principles including SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and reliability engineering practices to OpenShift environments Respond to and lead incident management for container platform and application-layer issues, driving timely resolution Automate operational tasks using Ansible, Helm, Operators, and scripting to reduce toil and improve platform consistency Perform OpenShift cluster upgrades, patch management, and capacity planning in coordination with infrastructure and application teams Implement and maintain observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Elasticsearch/EFK stack Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to onboard workloads and optimize containerized application performance Enforce platform security policies and ensure compliance with federal security standards using OCP RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SCCs Develop and maintain runbooks, post-incident reviews, and platform documentation Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to continuous reliability improvement initiatives US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; 5 additional years of relevant experience accepted in lieu of degree 3+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or upstream Kubernetes in a production environment Experience with Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred) Proficiency in container technologies (Docker/Podman) and Kubernetes core concepts Experience with Helm charts, Operators, and OpenShift-native tooling Familiarity with SRE practices: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or equivalent Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration and incident escalation Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or equivalent certification Experience in a federal government or FedRAMP environment Agile, SAFe, or DevSecOps methodology experience Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh) Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Tekton, or equivalent) "Anivas Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected characteristics as defined by law."