DevOps Specialist

Lead DevSecOps / OpenShift (Kubernetes) Engineer

📍 Location: Lansing, MI

💵 Rate: $55–$65/hr on W-2 (No C2C)

⏱ Duration: Long-term contract

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevSecOps / OpenShift (Kubernetes) Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering support for large, complex enterprise applications. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining containerized platforms using Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes), with a strong focus on DevSecOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in OpenShift, Azure DevOps, Linux scripting, container orchestration, and security tooling, along with the ability to mentor teams, guide platform adoption, and ensure alignment between application requirements and platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & DevSecOps Leadership

• Serve as the lead engineer for DevSecOps, Azure DevOps, and OpenShift (Kubernetes) platforms.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering and DevOps teams.
• Consult with application development teams to ensure platform solutions align with business and technical requirements.
• Drive DevSecOps maturity through automation, standardization, and security integration.

CI/CD & Automation

• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines for building, testing, scanning, and deploying applications and container images.
• Implement CI/CD solutions for Java and .NET applications using standard and custom ADO tasks.
• Integrate pipelines with tools such as SonarQube, Coverity, and Black Duck for code quality and security scanning.
• Automate deployment processes across OpenShift, Linux, Windows, SQL Server, and Oracle environments.

OpenShift & Containerization

• Design, configure, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift v4 environments.
• Create and manage BuildConfigs, DeploymentConfigs, CRDs, Helm charts, StatefulSets, and other Kubernetes resources.
• Build and maintain Docker and S2I images, including converting between Docker and S2I-based images.
• Manage container image repositories such as Quay.
• Troubleshoot application and platform issues within OpenShift environments.

Monitoring, Logging & Observability

• Administer and support the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana – v8.x ).
• Manage performance, capacity, index curation, and retention policies.
• Configure Logstash pipelines, grok patterns, and data ingestion flows.
• Support Beats agents such as Filebeat and Heartbeat for log and system monitoring.

Security & Networking

• Implement and maintain secure configurations including SSL/TLS, TCP/IP networking, LDAP, and authentication integrations.
• Support container and application security best practices within DevSecOps pipelines.
• Assist with vulnerability remediation and secure deployment practices.

Scripting & Troubleshooting

• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Bash, KornShell (.ksh), Python, and other scripting languages.
• Troubleshoot and debug Java application errors in containerized environments.
• Support platform upgrades, patches, and lifecycle management activities.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience working with Kubernetes / Red Hat OpenShift.
• 8 years of experience with Linux shell scripting.
• 5 years of expertise in application containerization and orchestration.
• 5 years of experience with DevSecOps practices, infrastructure automation, and scripting/programming.

Strong hands-on experience with:

• OpenShift
• Azure DevOps
• Docker & S2I
• ELK Stack
• SonarQube / Black Duck
• Linux, Bash, Shell scripting
• Python
• NGINX
• WebSphere
• LDAP
• Experience creating and maintaining ADO Wikis, work item structures, Git repositories, branching strategies, and pull request workflows.
• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and lead technical initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or government systems.
• Experience with SQL Server and Oracle integrations.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management concepts.
• Strong background in performance tuning and capacity planning for container platforms.