Senior OpenShift Platform Consultant (1099 / C2C, Remote)

Kelaca is seeking a Senior OpenShift Platform Consultant to support Red Hat–led consulting engagements delivering production-grade OpenShift platforms for enterprise customers. This is a hands-on implementation role focused on building secure, stable, and supportable OpenShift clusters across bare metal, cloud, and hybrid environments.

You will join established delivery teams with defined scope, timelines, and architecture, owning execution and delivery from day one.

What you’ll do

• Design and deploy Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production environments

• Implement IPI and UPI installation patterns

• Configure networking, storage, ingress, authentication, and identity integration

• Automate cluster lifecycle operations including upgrades and patching

• Integrate OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise services

• Document platforms and enable customer teams through knowledge transfer

What we’re looking for

• Senior-level OpenShift delivery experience in production

• Strong Linux and Kubernetes platform engineering background

• Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD or OpenShift GitOps)

• Experience running OpenShift on bare metal and public cloud platforms (ROSA, ARO, GCP)

• Comfortable working in a project-based consulting model

Engagement details

• Contract: 1099 or C2C

• Duration: Project-based, typically several weeks to several months

• Location: Remote

• Schedule: Full-time during active engagements

Job Type: Full-time

Hours of Work: Monday-Friday; 8am-5pm

FLSA Exemption Status: Exempt

Kelaca is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment based on age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, protected veteran status, genetic information, gender, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other non-merit factor.