Senior OpenShift Architect – Hybrid Cloud for Banking

DICETEK LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

DICETEK LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced OpenShift Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise OpenShift platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed services for banking workloads. You will drive hybrid cloud strategies, security, and compliance while guiding modernization initiatives.

The role requires 10+ years of IT experience and a strong background in OpenShift, automation, and multi-cloud integrations, with a focus on regulated environments.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of IT experience, preferably within the banking sector, with broad exposure to enterprise technology platforms.
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and operate enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed OpenShift services for regulated banking workloads.
• Define hybrid and multi-cloud OpenShift architecture, integrating on-prem OpenShift with cloud-hosted clusters while maintaining security, compliance, and operational consistency.
• Architect OpenShift solutions leveraging Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), including network connectivity, identity integration, and landing zone alignment.
• Build, configure, and maintain OpenShift cluster infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of OpenShift platforms: installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform health management.
• Act as a solution architect and technical advisor for container platforms, guiding application modernization and cloud-native adoption strategies.
• Plan and implement capacity and scaling strategies for OpenShift clusters across cloud and on-prem platforms based on business demand and SLAs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to OpenShift and platform engineers, promoting cloud and hybrid platform best practices.
• Lead or support small platform engineering teams, including task planning, technical reviews, and skill development.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Cloud architecture

Platform automation

Security and compliance

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

OpenShift

Ansible

Terraform

Bash

Python

Argo CD

Tekton

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

DICETEK LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced OpenShift Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise OpenShift platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed services for banking workloads. You will drive hybrid cloud strategies, security, and compliance while guiding modernization initiatives.

The role requires 10+ years of IT experience and a strong background in OpenShift, automation, and multi-cloud integrations, with a focus on regulated environments.