Job Title: Open Shift ArchitectLocation: College Park, MDJob Responsibilities:- Lead the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available container platforms using Red Hat OpenShift
- Establish enterprise reference architectures, standards, and design patterns for containerized workloads
- Oversee deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management strategies for OpenShift clusters. Both OVE and OKE Clusters
- Evaluate and recommend infrastructure designs for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments
- Ensure container platform designs comply with Federal security requirements (e.g., NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or agency-specific standards)
- Lead migration strategies for transitioning legacy applications to container-based architectures and migrating VMware VMs into Open Shift OVE
- Provide technical leadership to engineers, DevOps teams, and Government stakeholders
- Develop and review high-level and low-level architecture documentation, including diagrams, roadmaps, and implementation plans
- Serve as escalation point for complex platform issues and architectural decisions
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide knowledge transfer to Government staff
Job Requirements:- Deep expertise with Red Hat OpenShift architecture and operations
- Multi-cluster design and management
- Cluster sizing, capacity planning, and performance tuning
- OpenShift upgrades, lifecycle management, and platform governance
- OpenShift virtualization and container-native storage concepts
- Platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Advanced understanding of Kubernetes internals
- Networking, ingress, service meshes, and DNS
- Security contexts, RBAC, admission controllers, and policies
- Stateful and stateless workloads
- Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
- High availability and disaster recovery architectures
Cloud & Infrastructure Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- VMware and on-premises environments
- Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
Key infrastructure knowledge:
- Compute, storage, and networking
- Load balancers and firewalls
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Identity and access management
Security Skills:
- Zero-trust architecture principles
- Container security and image scanning
- Secrets management
- Compliance frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)
- Network segmentation and policy design
- Identity integration (LDAP, Active Directory, SSO)
