We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support and enhance a large-scale Linux and container platform environment for a motor freight forwarder in Johns Creek, Georgia. This Long-term Contract position focuses on maintaining reliable infrastructure operations, strengthening platform performance, and ensuring stable Kubernetes and OpenShift services across multiple environments. The role will partner with technical teams to improve automation, availability, and operational readiness for business-critical systems.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Administer a broad Linux server estate across production, quality assurance, and development environments, ensuring consistent performance and system stability.<br>• Plan and carry out operating system maintenance activities, including version upgrades, routine patching, and kernel updates with minimal service disruption.<br>• Track infrastructure health and fine-tune compute, memory, storage, and network performance to improve reliability and efficiency.<br>• Oversee account access controls and support authentication connectivity with enterprise directory services.<br>• Verify backup integrity and contribute to disaster recovery preparedness through regular review and testing activities.<br>• Manage Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms across environments, including deployment, day-to-day administration, and ongoing support.<br>• Lead cluster lifecycle activities such as installation, expansion, patching, version upgrades, and capacity adjustments.<br>• Configure and maintain core platform components such as namespaces, security settings, ingress, load balancing, and persistent storage resources.<br>• Assist application teams with container onboarding, issue resolution, and workload optimization while supporting CI/CD integration for container-based deployments.<br>• Monitor platform health with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and native OpenShift capabilities, and use findings to guide capacity planning.

• Hands-on experience in DevOps or platform engineering with strong responsibility for Linux or UNIX infrastructure.<br>• Proven expertise working with Kubernetes and OpenShift in enterprise or multi-environment settings.<br>• Practical knowledge of automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform.<br>• Experience managing operating system patching, upgrades, system tuning, and infrastructure monitoring.<br>• Familiarity with identity and access management integrations, backup validation, and disaster recovery support.<br>• Understanding of container networking, ingress configuration, load balancing, and persistent storage concepts.<br>• Ability to support CI/CD processes for containerized applications and collaborate effectively with application teams.<br>• Exposure to clustered infrastructure technologies, including Microsoft Clustering, is beneficial.

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