Openshift Kubernetes System Administrator

Remote or Onsite: Candidates MUST be local at time of submission within a commutable distance (11.5 hours). Hiring manager is not interested in candidates who need to relocate to accept the position. Will need to be onsite starting day 1 for hybrid work schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION.

Interview Process: Virtual Interview via MS Teams video. Please use laptop and be prepared so share screen if asked. Use of headphones is strongly discouraged. A screenshot photo of candidate will be required for any Teams interviews as well as a vendor present at beginning of interview to validate candidate.

Top Skills & Years of Experience:
8 years of experience in Linux shell scripting
5 years of experience working on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
5 years as in expert in application containerization management
Experience in DevSecOps practices infrastructure scripting/programming
Experience in AWS platform

This position functions as a OpenShift Container Plaform Administrator responsible for the supporting State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Health Services (MDHHS) projects. This position provides the technical expertise for the complex and intricate Michigan Department Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Azure DevOps and Containerization Tool Stack including but not limited to specializing in the support and administration of the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) Projects and support for integrations with IIS Apache Tomcat JBoss SQL Server Windows Linux Oracle etc. This position will act as an escalation point to support OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Azure DevOps processes including build release management and deployment using Azure DevOps and OCP tools. With a large number of applications transistioning to OCP an adinistrator is needed to coordinate provide guidanace resolve technical issues and adherence to standards. This position will incorporate the DTMB DevSecOps methodology into the tools and platforms within the scope of responsibility. The administrator is also responsible to integrate new technologies/ tools with Azure and OCP.


Position Summary:
Strong experience with Redhat OpenShift Version 4.
Troubleshoot the application issues in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment.
Experience in creating Build Deployment config files for applications on OpenShift.
Handson experience in creating S2I images Stateful sets and converting existing docker image to an S2I image.
Working knowledge on OpenShift/Kubernetes and Container Orchestration.
Experience working on Javabased applications.
Knowledge on maintaining Quay Image Repository.
Experience and ability to creating docker files images and containers.
Experience with Azure DevOps Azure Pipelines and GIT.
Implement and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Work collaboratively with teams to ensure our products are successfully deployed upgraded and maintained.
Deep knowledge and experience with Elastic stack (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana) version 6.X and higher.
Elastic stack administration performance and capacity management including Index curation/retention management.
Logstash and pipeline configuration and grok experience.
Working knowledge of Elastic Beats Filebeats Heartbeat.
Working Experience with SonarQube Coverity.
Experience with Hasura REDIS Apache Spark Azure Databricks.
Experience with AWS.
Experience with Linux Scripting .ksh bash and Python terraforming scripts.
Experience in understanding and debugging Java errors.
Strong Knowledge of SSL TCP/IP Networking LDAP.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills works well with diverse teams and independently.
Selfstarter with excellent organization planning detailoriented documentation and time management skills
Experience with 24/7 problem solving in an existing complex environment including monitoring disk CPU and network performance anomalies and the ability to act immediately upon system and/or network performance alarms.

Skill Descriptions:
5 years of experience working on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
8 years of experience in Linux shell scripting
5 years as in expert in application containerization management
Experience in DevSecOps practices infrastructure scripting/programming
Experience in AWS platform
5 Plus years of experience with skillsets listed
OpenShift
WebSphere
Azure DevOps
ELK Stack
Docker
SonarQube
Linux
Shell
S2I
Python
NGINX
Java

Thanks

Jack