AI Architect - TS/SCI | OpenShift & Enterprise AI

Red Hat, Inc.; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat, Inc. seeks an AI Architect with TS/SCI CI Poly to design and deliver enterprise AI solutions across North America. You will lead model selection, optimize serving, and enable portable inference in cloud, on-premises, and sovereign environments.

Travel weekly to client sites is required. You will partner with AI platform teams to deploy Models-as-a-Service and GPU services on OpenShift AI, ensure security and governance, and mentor customer engineers for sustained operations after

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise technology with at least 5 as a hands-on architect delivering in customer environments.
• Deep OpenShift expertise: cluster architecture, GitOps, multi-cluster management, security and observability.
• Production experience with Red Hat AI: OpenShift AI, vLLM, model serving with KServe, registries and pipelines.
• Knowledge of how enterprises run generative AI today: inference economics, model selection and optimization, RAG and evaluation.
• Kubernetes fluency: containers, APIs, CI/CD and SBOM, signing, policy gates in Python/Go/Java.
• Automation with Ansible Automation Platform and event-driven automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead model selection, optimization and serving decisions on Red Hat AI.
• Baseline and reduce inference cost per use case using GuideLLM benchmarks.
• Design portable inference across cloud, on-premises and sovereign environments.
• Travel weekly to client locations.
• Architect retrieval and context patterns (RAG) for data locality and security.
• Lead sovereign and disconnected deployments on OpenShift, including provenance and compliance evidence.
• Run Models-as-a-Service and GPU-as-a-Service on OpenShift AI and RH AI Enterprise.
• Build agent frameworks and ensure operations pass RBAC, approvals and audits.

Skills

OpenShift

Architecture leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

Go

Java

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

Kubernetes

KServe

OpenShift AI

Run:AI

Job description

Red Hat, Inc. seeks an AI Architect with TS/SCI CI Poly to design and deliver enterprise AI solutions across North America. You will lead model selection, optimize serving, and enable portable inference in cloud, on-premises, and sovereign environments.

Travel weekly to client sites is required. You will partner with AI platform teams to deploy Models-as-a-Service and GPU services on OpenShift AI, ensure security and governance, and mentor customer engineers for sustained operations after