OpenShift Enterprise Architect
Listed on 2026-08-12
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Infrastructure
Description
At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.
The AEGIS program at Leidos is seeking a highly experienced Open Shift Enterprise Architect with 8+ years of senior‑level experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise container‑platform architectures. This position supports NASA’s Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI) Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRED) IT within a complex on‑premises Red Hat Open Shift environment used to host enterprise applications such as the Maximo Application Suite (MAS), IBM Storage Fusion, and other mission‑critical workloads.
The architect will provide high‑level technical strategy, platform governance, integration design, security architecture, and cross‑organizational leadership to ensure Open Shift remains secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise IT standards.
Primary Responsibilities:Enterprise Architecture & Platform Strategy
Define the end‑to‑end architecture for the enterprise Open Shift platform, including cluster topology, node architecture, compute/storage strategy, and high‑availability patterns.
Develop and maintain lifecycle plans, deployment workflows, and CM baselines.
Establish architectural standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns for containerized workloads.
Lead platform capacity planning, scalability modeling, and performance optimization initiatives.
Open Shift Platform Design, Governance & Lifecycle Management
Design and architect on‑prem and hybrid Open Shift environments including installation, upgrades, cluster expansion, multi-cluster governance, and infrastructure dependencies.
Oversee the design and governance of cluster objects (name spaces, operators, ingress, storage classes, policies, RBAC, quotas, pod security standards).
Ensure proper architectural controls for backup and restore, DR/Failover strategy, cluster federation, and platform observability.
Provide architectural oversight for application onboarding, integration patterns, and workload migrations into Open Shift.
Security Architecture, Compliance, & Zero‑Trust Controls
Implement enterprise security policies and zero‑trust requirements across clusters.
Architect platform‑wide certificate management, PKI integration, TLS enforcement, secrets‑management policies, encrypted storage strategies, and data‑protection baselines.
Direct vulnerability remediation strategy, patch management standards, and secure configuration hardening.
Networking & Infrastructure Architecture
Architect routing, ingress, load balancing, reverse proxy, DNS, and firewall rule structures supporting resilient application connectivity.
Define infrastructure integration patterns with hypervisors, bare‑metal, storage subsystems, and enterprise identity platforms.
Provide architectural guidance for cross‑cluster networking, service mesh, egress controls, multitenancy boundaries, and traffic‑engineering strategies.
Monitoring and Automation
Architect end‑to‑end observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Alert manager, and enterprise logging platforms (e.g., Splunk).
Define alerting strategy, SLO/SLI metrics, cluster health dashboards, capacity analytics, and anomaly‑detection baselines.
Ensure data pipelines for logs, metrics, and events meet enterprise governance, retention, and compliance requirements.
Establish automation standards using Git Ops (ArgoCD), Ansible, Terraform, and Open Shift APIs.
Cross‑Organizational Stakeholder Engagement & Continuous Improvement
Produce architectural diagrams, executive briefings, governance documentation, and technical decision packages.
Recommend platform enhancements, cost‑optimization opportunities, efficiency improvements, and modernization paths.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Minimum 8+ years of…
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