DevOps Engineer

Please find details for this position below:

Job Title – AI Openshift Engineer/ DevOps/Platform

Location: Irving, TX/ Charlotte, NC/ Chandler, AZ – 3 days onsite

Contract Duration: 12 months contract

Advanced Systems Engineer and AI Developer

Advanced OpenShift Engineering & Operations ( 4 to 6 years)

• Deep expertise with OpenShift includes building clusters with pipelines, diagnosing, debugging, remediation, upgrades, patching, and RCA.
• Strong experience with Operators, Diagnostics hub operators, ETCD, API server, OVN K networking, workloads, and cluster internals.

Python development and OCP API skills for Remediation & Automation tasks (> 5 years)

• Strong, production quality Python engineering skills.
• Hands on experience with the OpenShift Python client and Operator / Kubernetes Python libraries.
• Ability to build automated remediation workflows and operational tools in Python.
• High code quality – Unit Tests, Vulnerability Management
• Packaging and Deploying Experience – Helm Charts, CI/CD, GitSaaS workflows
• System Design Experience

Technical Documentation

• SLM (Small Language Model) Training & Tuning Development ( > 2 years)
• Experience training and tuning local models to make specialist domain for any data corpus
• Expertise in tasks include - Fine tuning vs. LoRA / QLoRA / adapters ; Knowledge distillation (LLM → SLM teacher student pipelines) ; constraints, not BLEU), Using VectorDB & RAG methods

Agentic AI Development for OCP ( > 3 years)

• Experience developing agentic AI workflows aimed at OpenShift operations and remediation.
• Strong skills with frameworks such as c, Google ADK/Agents, or similar multi agent orchestration tools.
• Develop skills and Tools for Agentic AI to complete tasks for OpenShift Platform
• Ability to build tool calling agents that interact with OpenShift safely and deterministically.
• Experience building agentic AI systems without using managed ML/AI platforms such as AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar hosted orchestration services.
• Candidate should have developed and deployed self-hosted, Python-based AI/agentic services end to end.

API Automation Platform (FastAPI / Flask)

• Ability to build, extend, and maintain a Python-based automation platform (FastAPI or Flask) that executes OpenShift actions.
• Experience designing agent tools/endpoints for AI-driven workflows.

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