Senior Consultant, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL) at Precision Solutions
Raleigh, NC
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Jul 5, 2026
Raleigh, NC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level infrastructure and platform engineering role focused on deploying and managing containerized workloads on Red Hat OpenShift in a classified government environment. Day-to-day work spans bare-metal provisioning, Kubernetes cluster operations, storage, security hardening, automation with Ansible and IaC tooling, and observability. The role also involves leading design workshops and advising senior stakeholders, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph held by the MPO customer.
Senior level · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 $128,188 (middle half $100,819–$156,589).
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 (9)
This is a contract engagement scoped at 480 hours, onsite Monday–Friday in Jessup, MD — not a permanent full-time role.
A TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph (FSP) held by the MPO customer is an absolute hard gate, as is a CI Polygraph within the last five years. Candidates without an active FSP clearance cannot be considered.
The degree requirement lists 'Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher' but frames it as experience-equivalent context rather than a strict gate; treated as no minimum hard degree requirement.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is primarily a Linux/OpenShift infrastructure consultant (systems administration, bare-metal provisioning, cluster operations) rather than a software developer, though scripting in Bash/Python/Go and IaC work push toward 15-1252. 15-1244 was selected as the primary code given the dominant focus on operating and configuring platforms; 15-1252 is the close runner-up.
Go is listed alongside Bash and Python as a scripting language under the requirements section; included as a hard gate consistent with its placement, though it reads as the least emphasized of the three.
Aria/vRealize Suite and Ironic appear in a 'knowledge of common AddOns or third-party tools' context, which reads as informational/preferred rather than a hard gate.
No compensation figures were provided in the posting.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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