Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid)

Work Type: Contract

Only Local resource or who has near to this location 

Top Required Skills:

• Deep experience with Terraform, Ansible, and OpenShift, including how they work together to provision, configure, and operate infrastructure across cloud and on?prem environments
• Strong understanding of end-to-end automation workflows, from infrastructure provisioning (Terraform) to configuration management (Ansible) to application orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes)
• Experience building and supporting hybrid environments, ensuring consistency between cloud and on-prem platforms
• CI/CD and GitOps experience integrating Terraform, Ansible, and OpenShift deployments into automated pipelines
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for cross-platform automation and troubleshooting
• Experience with observability (Prometheus, Grafana) to monitor both infrastructure and container platforms
• Knowledge of security and access controls (RBAC, SSO, secrets management) across infrastructure and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Strong infrastructure foundation (networking, storage, databases, DNS) with the ability to support full-stack automation workflows

MUST HAVE

• Experience designing and implementing hybrid automation architectures using Terraform, Ansible, and OpenShift together
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift in both cloud and on-prem environments
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) or OpenShift certification
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, or Flux to support GitOps deployments on OpenShift
• Familiarity with policy-as-code and governance across hybrid platforms
• Experience supporting stateful workloads (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments