Kubernetes Platform Engineer

The Opportunity Geodesicx is hiring an enterprise platform engineer to build, automate, and sustain Red Hat OpenShift environments supporting Naval and Marine Corps systems at NIWC Atlantic. The underlying engineering challenge will be familiar to professionals from retail, e-commerce, fulfillment, logistics, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, and other large-scale commercial environments: keep a distributed, mission-critical platform standardized, secure, available, recoverable, and easy to operate. This is a platform administration and automation role - not primarily an application developer role. You will own and improve the shared OpenShift platform on which application teams deploy their workloads. The strongest candidates combine hands-on OpenShift or enterprise Kubernetes administration with Ansible automation and can troubleshoot across RHEL, containers, networking, storage, registries, and deployed applications. COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL TECHNOLOGY CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Previous government or defense experience is not required, and you do not need an active clearance when you apply. You must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance for this role. What You Will Do Administer and troubleshoot production Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters, including single-node and multi-node deployments. Use Ansible and Infrastructure as Code to automate installation, configuration, validation, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and operational health checks. Create and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, collections, configuration files, and custom Execution Environments. Standardize deployments across bare-metal, virtualized, cloud, distributed, and limited-connectivity environments. Manage container images, operators, Helm charts, Quay or mirrored registries, oc-mirror, and OpenShift Update Service. Configure and troubleshoot OpenShift networking, DNS, API and ingress endpoints, virtual IPs, load balancing, routing, persistent storage, and cluster services. Diagnose incidents across RHEL, Kubernetes, OpenShift, containers, registries, networking, storage, automation, and deployed applications. Integrate platform automation with Git-based configuration management, GitLab, and CI/CD workflows. Support release integration, platform testing, installation validation, continuity planning, and recovery exercises. Create practical playbooks, installation guides, diagrams, troubleshooting procedures, and release documentation; share knowledge with engineering and integration teams. Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, government, and partner teams during planning, technical reviews, integration events, and demonstrations. Candidate Preferences U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance. Hands-on production administration of Red Hat OpenShift; substantial enterprise Kubernetes…