Enterprise Cloud Kubernetes & OpenShift Architect

Covenant Tel; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Covenant Tel in Dubai is seeking an experienced Cloud Kubernetes Solution Architect to design and optimize enterprise-grade container and virtualization platforms, and to serve as the technical authority for cloud-native architecture.

You will lead OpenShift and OpenStack deployments, define platform standards for networking, security and automation, and drive integration with CI/CD pipelines across private and public clouds.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack in production.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, cluster administration, and networking.
• Strong virtualization, Linux administration, and performance tuning.
• Experience with automation/infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern scalable Kubernetes and OpenShift architectures for enterprise workloads.
• Lead 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 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.

Skills

Kubernetes architecture

OpenShift platform design

Cloud virtualization

Security and RBAC

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Job description

Covenant Tel in Dubai is seeking an experienced Cloud Kubernetes Solution Architect to design and optimize enterprise-grade container and virtualization platforms, and to serve as the technical authority for cloud-native architecture.

You will lead OpenShift and OpenStack deployments, define platform standards for networking, security and automation, and drive integration with CI/CD pipelines across private and public clouds.