Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer
Black Canyon Consulting · Bethesda, MD
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Jul 20, 2026
Bethesda, MD
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift clusters to support a modern Kubernetes-based DevOps platform at a major biomedical research institution. Day-to-day work involves helping internal developers migrate legacy software to the new platform, managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines, working with GCP services, and providing on-call support. It suits engineers with hands-on cluster administration experience rather than general platform users.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,650–13,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting's single hardest gate is explicitly called out: 'in-depth knowledge/experience with *building and maintaining* Red Hat OpenShift clusters — merely using OpenShift is insufficient.' This is a strong signal for a senior-level platform/infrastructure engineer.
SOC classification is Medium confidence. The role builds and maintains a DevOps platform (OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, service mesh) — primarily shipping infrastructure-as-code and automation — which maps to 15-1252 Software Developers. However, the on-call support, systems administration, and operations framing also pull toward 15-1244; that is listed as the runner-up.
Service-mesh familiarity (Istio, Linkerd) appears in the Required Skills section with the qualifier 'etc.', so it is treated as a hard gate on the capability; Istio is the primary name with Linkerd in alternatives.
The TIGK stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, Kibana) is referenced in the Preferred section as a monitoring stack alongside Grafana, Prometheus, and OpsGenie. Individual named tools are captured as preferred skills; 'TIGK stack' itself is not emitted as it is a bundle label rather than a single canonical tool.
AWS appears in the Preferred section as an alternative cloud environment alongside GCP and Azure; it is captured as preferred with GCP/Azure as alternatives, separate from the required GCP/GKE/Anthos skills.
Degree requirement is None — the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience' in lieu of a BS degree.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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