Sr Kubernetes and OpenShift Consultant
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Node.js
- Load Balancing
- RBAC
- Linux
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab
You have an entrepreneurial spirit. You enjoy working as a part of well-knit teams. You value the team over the individual. You welcome diversity at work and within the greater community. You aren't afraid to take risks. You appreciate a growth path with your leadership team that journeys how you can grow inside and outside of the organization. You thrive upon continuing education programs that your company sponsors to strengthen your skills and for you to become a thought leader ahead of the industry curve.
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia - Onsite
About the Role
CirrusLabs is seeking a hands on Kubernetes and OpenShift Consultant for a six month contract to hire opportunity with one of our enterprise clients. This role is intended for a true practitioner who can work directly in the environment, troubleshoot issues, and help stabilize and scale container platforms supporting mission critical applications.
The ideal candidate has strong experience operating Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise environments, understands production grade Kubernetes operations, and collaborates closely with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams.
Key Responsibilities
• Deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters
• Perform hands on troubleshooting of cluster, node, pod, networking, and storage issues
• Support containerized applications running in production environments
• Configure and manage ingress, services, routes, and load balancing
• Partner with enterprise networking, firewall, and security teams
• Implement and support CI and CD integrations for container workloads
• Manage RBAC, security policies, secrets, and certificates
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and capacity
• Perform upgrades, patches, and platform lifecycle management
• Work onsite with infrastructure, platform, and application teams
Required Qualifications
• Five or more years of hands on Kubernetes experience in production
• Strong hands on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes core concepts including deployments, services, networking, and storage
• Strong Linux systems experience
• Proven troubleshooting skills across containers, networking, and infrastructure
• Experience supporting high availability, mission critical systems
• Strong communication skills and ability to work onsite in Atlanta, GA
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with hybrid infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with CI and CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab
• Experience with container security and policy enforcement
• Exposure to monitoring and observability platforms
• Kubernetes or Red Hat certifications
• Experience supporting large enterprise environments
Sr Kubernetes and OpenShift Consultant · CirrusLabs