AI Architect: OpenShift & Sovereign Deployments

Red Hat Professional Consulting, Inc. (f.k.a Planning Technologies, Inc.); Virginia; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

401(k) with match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Disability and family leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Transportation allowance

Job summary

Red Hat Services is seeking an AI Architect to design and deliver strategic AI solutions, blending technical leadership with hands-on implementation and enablement of best practices. You will promote Red Hat AI platforms, lead enterprise deployments, and drive cost-efficient, policy-governed workloads across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will travel weekly to client locations, lead evaluation-driven release gates, and ensure reusable asset creation while aligning with customer sponsorship

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise technology and 5+ years as hands-on architect or senior consultant.
• Deep, current OpenShift expertise: cluster architecture, GitOps, multi-cluster management, security and observability, GPU-enabled nodes.
• Production experience with Red Hat AI or its upstreams: OpenShift AI, vLLM, model serving with KServe, model registries and pipelines, llm-d, LLM Compressor, Eval Hub.
• Experience with modern AI governance, cost controls, and enterprise-scale deployment practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead model selection, optimization and serving decisions on RedHatAI tooling.
• Design portable inference workloads across cloud, on-premises, and sovereign environments.
• Architect retrieval and context patterns (RAG) to protect data and ensure repeatable, adaptable solutions.
• Lead sovereign and disconnected deployments of RedHatAI on OpenShift; manage provenance, signing, BOMs, and compliance evidence.
• Build Models-as-a-Service and GPU-as-a-Service for shared platform teams with multi-tenancy and metering.
• Guide customers on architecture delivery plans, baselines, and success metrics and ensure measurable outcomes.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

AI model serving

GPO/DevOps

Python/Go/Java

Ansible automation

Cost optimization

RAG/evaluation

Federated/sovereign deployments

Executive communication

Tools

OpenShift AI

vLLM

KServe

GPU/ accelerator hardware

Job description

Red Hat Services is seeking an AI Architect to design and deliver strategic AI solutions, blending technical leadership with hands-on implementation and enablement of best practices. You will promote Red Hat AI platforms, lead enterprise deployments, and drive cost-efficient, policy-governed workloads across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will travel weekly to client locations, lead evaluation-driven release gates, and ensure reusable asset creation while aligning with customer sponsorship