OpenShift Enterprise Architect: Scale, Security & Strategy

Leidos; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an OpenShift Enterprise Architect with 8+ years of senior experience to design, implement, and govern an enterprise OpenShift platform within NASA OSI FRED IT. You will lead platform strategy, governance, security architecture, and cross‑organizational collaboration across on‑premises and hybrid environments.

The role focuses on end-to-end architecture, workload onboarding, and integration patterns, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of combined OpenShift, Kubernetes, and/or Linux experience.
• Current RedHat OpenShift Administration certification or ability to obtain within 6 months of employment.
• Proficient in OpenShift administration, including cluster management, deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and patching.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and principles.
• Solid experience with Linux operating systems and command-line skills.
• Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, load balancing, and security.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues within the OpenShift environment.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation and management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across teams.
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for the enterprise OpenShift platform, including topology and high-availability patterns.
• Develop lifecycle plans, deployment workflows, and configuration baselines.
• Establish architectural standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
• Lead platform capacity planning, scalability modeling, and performance optimization.
• Design and architect on-prem and hybrid OpenShift environments, including upgrades and multi-cluster governance.
• Oversee cluster objects, backups, DR/Failover, and observability.
• Provide architectural oversight for onboarding applications and workload migrations to OpenShift.
• Implement enterprise security policies and zero-trust requirements across clusters.
• Architect platform-wide certificate management, TLS enforcement, and secrets-management policies.
• Define infrastructure integration patterns with hypervisors, bare-metal, and storage subsystems.
• Establish automation standards using GitOps (ArgoCD), Ansible, Terraform, and OpenShift APIs.

Skills

OpenShift Administration

Kubernetes

Linux

Python scripting

Communication

Problem solving

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

ArgoCD

Ansible

Terraform

Jira Service Management

Job description

Leidos is seeking an OpenShift Enterprise Architect with 8+ years of senior experience to design, implement, and govern an enterprise OpenShift platform within NASA OSI FRED IT. You will lead platform strategy, governance, security architecture, and cross‑organizational collaboration across on‑premises and hybrid environments.

The role focuses on end-to-end architecture, workload onboarding, and integration patterns, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and governance.