OpensShift Architect

The Enterprise Open Shift Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing a production-grade Red Hat Open Shift platform hosted on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.

The role owns the end-to-end Open Shift ecosystem, including platform architecture, networking, storage, security, Advanced Cluster Management governance, automation, high availability, disaster recovery, the operating model, and application onboarding.

The architect will provide strategic and technical leadership for multi-cluster and multi-environment Open Shift deployments supporting enterprise workloads at scale.

• Define the enterprise Open Shift platform strategy and target-state architecture.
• Design Open Shift clusters across Production, Non-Production, DMZ, and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Define cluster segmentation, workload placement, and workload isolation strategies.
• Establish an Advanced Cluster Management-based multi-cluster architecture.
• Develop platform architecture standards, principles, and governance frameworks.
• Design the Open Shift hosting architecture within Azure Landing Zones.
• Define Azure subscriptions, virtual networks, peering, security zones, routing, and private connectivity.
• Design secure integration with enterprise identity, networking, monitoring, and security platforms.
• Ensure alignment with Azure architecture, resilience, security, and governance standards.

• Design control-plane, infrastructure, and worker-node architecture.
• Define the control plane, application plane, and shared-services architecture.
• Design ingress, routing, container registry, observability, and service-mesh frameworks.
• Establish cluster sizing, scalability, performance, and capacity-planning models.
• Define platform standards for name spaces, operators, workloads, and shared services.
• Implement Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management governance and policy-management capabilities.
• Establish centralized lifecycle management across all Open Shift clusters.
• Define cluster provisioning, onboarding, configuration, compliance, and decommissioning frameworks.
• Standardize policies across Production, Non-Production, DMZ, and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Maintain visibility and governance across the enterprise cluster estate.

• Design Microsoft Entra n and Single Sign-On architecture.
• Define Role-Based Access Control, namespace governance, Security Context Constraints, and pod-security controls.
• Implement Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security frameworks.
• Establish image-security, vulnerability-management, compliance, and admission-control processes.
• Define secrets-management, certificate-management, and privileged-access controls.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.

• Define the enterprise storage strategy using Azure-native storage, Azure Files, Azure Net App Files, Open Shift Data Foundation, or other approved solutions.
• Design persistent-storage architecture for enterprise workloads.
• Define data-protection, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster-recovery strategies.
• Implement backup and restoration capabilities for platform and application workloads.
• Establish storage performance, availability, security, and capacity standards.

• Design and implement the enterprise Git Ops operating model.
• Develop Terraform- and Ansible-based platform automation.
• Standardize cluster deployment, configuration, upgrade, and lifecycle automation.
• Establish Platform-as-Code methodologies and reusable automation frameworks.
• Integrate platform automation with enterprise CI/CD pipelines and source-control platforms.
• Reduce manual intervention through repeatable and governed automation.

• Define monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, patching, maintenance, and upgrade models.
• Establish platform service levels, operational controls, and support responsibilities.
• Develop operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and support procedures.
• Lead production-readiness assessments and architecture reviews.
• Coordinate operational handover to infrastructure, application, security, and support teams.
• Define incident, problem, change, capacity, and availability-management processes.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents and complex platform issues.

• Define application-onboarding standards and readiness criteria.
• Guide application teams on containerization, deployment, security, networking, storage, and observability requirements.
• Review application architecture for compatibility with the Open Shift platform.
• Establish reusable onboarding templates, pipelines, policies, and documentation.
• Support the migration and modernization of enterprise applications onto Open Shift.

Required Qualifications and

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise Red Hat Open Shift…