Red Hat Open Shift Architect

Red Hat Open Shift Architect

Location: Court College Park, MD 20740


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)