OpenShift Systems Operations Engineer / Agentic AI Developer

Strategic Staffing Solutions is seeking an experienced OpenShift Systems Operations Engineer with strong Python development skills and experience building Agentic AI systems. This role combines deep OpenShift platform engineering expertise with AI-driven automation, enabling intelligent operational tooling that improves reliability, diagnostics, and automated remediation across enterprise container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise OpenShift clusters and platform infrastructure
• Perform advanced diagnostics, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis (RCA) for cluster and workload issues
• Manage cluster lifecycle operations , including upgrades, patching, remediation, and performance optimization
• Work with core OpenShift components including:
• Operators
• Diagnostics Hub Operators
• ETCD
• API Server
• OVN-K Networking
• Workload scheduling and cluster internals
• Develop and maintain automation pipelines for platform management and deployment
• Build production-grade Python automation tools for OpenShift platform operations
• Develop automated remediation workflows using:
• OpenShift Python Client
• Kubernetes Python libraries
• Create operational tooling to support monitoring, diagnostics, and infrastructure management
• Maintain high-quality engineering practices , including:
• Unit testing
• Vulnerability management
• Code reviews
• Documentation
• Package and deploy solutions using Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows
• Participate in system architecture and technical design decisions
• Design and develop agentic AI workflows to automate OpenShift operations and remediation tasks
• Build tool-calling AI agents that interact with OpenShift APIs safely and deterministically
• Implement multi-agent orchestration using frameworks such as:
• LangChain
• Google ADK / Agents
• Similar agent orchestration frameworks
• Develop AI tools capable of:
• Cluster diagnostics
• Automated remediation
• Operational task execution
• Build and deploy self-hosted Python-based AI services end-to-end without reliance on managed ML platforms
• Integrate AI agents with internal automation platforms and APIs
• Design and maintain a Python-based automation platform using:
• FastAPI
• Flask
• Develop APIs that allow AI agents and operational tools to perform OpenShift actions
• Build reusable service endpoints that support automation, diagnostics, and platform management
• Ensure platform security, reliability, and scalability

Skills

• 4–6 years of OpenShift engineering and platform operations experience
• 5+ years of Python development experience
• 3+ years of experience developing agentic AI systems
• Strong expertise with OpenShift cluster architecture
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes internals
• Strong expertise with cluster lifecycle management
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift Python client
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes Python libraries
• Hands-on experience with Helm charts
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with Git-based workflows
• Experience designing automation systems for infrastructure remediation
• Experience building self-hosted AI/agent systems in Python

Company Overview

• Strategic Staffing Solutions is a recruiting company which helps companies find suitable employees in various industries. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.strategicstaff.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Strategic Staffing Solutions has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 101 in 2025, 93 in 2024, 95 in 2023, 53 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 57 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.