Solution Architect - Cloud Kubernetes

Role summary: We are seeking an experienced Cloud Kubernetes Solution Architect to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade container, cloud, and virtualization platforms. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP), Kubernetes, Linux, automation, networking, security, and hybrid cloud integration. The ideal candidate will act as a technical authority for cloud-native architecture, platform modernization, and production operations across private and public cloud environments. Key Responsiblities: Design and govern scalable Kubernetes and OpenShift architectures for enterprise workloads, including multi-cluster, multi-tenant, high-availability, and disaster recovery designs. Lead the architecture, deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform environments. Define platform standards for networking, storage, security, identity integration, monitoring, logging, backup, and capacity planning. Integrate OpenShift and OpenStack platforms with enterprise systems, CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, service catalogs, and cloud management platforms. Develop infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and OpenShift Operators. Provide technical leadership for application modernization, containerization, microservices deployment, and migration to cloud-native platforms. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, operations, and architecture teams to translate business requirements into secure and reliable technical solutions. Troubleshoot complex platform issues across Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization layers. Establish best practices for platform reliability, observability, compliance, vulnerability management, patching, and operational runbooks. Support hybrid cloud and multi-cloud initiatives involving Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, and enterprise private cloud platforms.

Desired Candidate Profile

Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, administering, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform in production environments. Strong practical expertise in Kubernetes architecture, cluster administration, workload management, namespaces, RBAC, ingress, operators, persistent storage, and container networking. Deep understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, system hardening, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Proven experience with OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Horizon, Heat, and related infrastructure components. Experience with OpenShift installation methods, cluster upgrades, node management, registry integration, image management, monitoring, logging, and platform security. Strong knowledge of virtualization, compute, storage, software-defined networking, load balancing, DNS, firewalls, and data center infrastructure. Hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Git, Helm, and CI/CD platforms. Ability to create high-level and low-level design documents, architecture diagrams, implementation plans, migration strategies, and operational procedures. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills. Technical Skills Container Platforms: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Operators, Helm, and GitOps. Private Cloud: Red Hat OpenStack Platform, OpenStack networking, compute, block storage, image services, identity services, and orchestration. Automation: Ansible, Terraform, shell scripting, Python scripting, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management. Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Monitoring, logging stacks, alerting, capacity reporting, and operational dashboards. Security: RBAC, identity integration, certificates, image security, network policies, compliance controls, vulnerability remediation, and platform hardening. Networking and Storage: SDN, OVN, VLAN/VXLAN, load balancers, DNS, routing, firewalls, persistent volumes, Ceph, SAN, NAS, and object storage concepts. Public Cloud Knowledge: Good working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Platform services, especially PaaS, container, networking, identity, monitoring, and integration services. Preferred Certifications Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent OpenShift certification. Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Certified Architect, or comparable Linux/OpenShift credential. Red Hat OpenStack Platform certification or proven equivalent hands-on project experience. Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, or cloud architecture certifications are preferred. Employment Type Full-time