Solution Architect - Cloud Kubernetes

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

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

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: RedHatOpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Operators, Helm, and GitOps.
• Private Cloud: RedHatOpenStack 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

• RedHat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent OpenShift certification.
• RedHat Certified Engineer, RedHat Certified Architect, or comparable Linux/OpenShift credential.
• RedHat OpenStack Platform certification or proven equivalent hands‑on project experience.
• Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, or cloud architecture certifications are preferred.