Red Hat Open Shift Architect

Statement of Work: Contractor shall provide an OpenShift Architect to lead the design and implementation of a scalable container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, ensuring high availability, security compliance, and alignment with enterprise DevOps practices. The Architect will define reference architectures, support workload migration, and establish operational best practices. The resource will also assist in building Clusters to migrate Virtual Machines from VMWare into OpenShift OVE as well as build Clusters for OKE for modernization of Apps into Containers

Task Description:

The OpenShift Architect shall:

• 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

Required skills/Level of Experience :

OpenShift Skills

• 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

Kubernetes Expertise

• 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

• 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)