Senior Fed OpenShift Architect - Secure Hybrid Cloud

IBM Computing

Reston (VA)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

IBM Consulting in Reston, VA seeks a Senior Red Hat Architect to lead hybrid cloud platform work for federal mission systems. You will apply OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform and Vault to design STIG-compliant environments across unclassified to SCIF.

You own technical credibility, shape opportunities with Account Leaders, and guide engagements valued at $3M and above, delivering secure, scalable platform solutions for DoD, civilian, and intelligence contexts.

Qualifications

Ten or more years of enterprise platform engineering or architecture experience in production.
Deep experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform.
Hands-on experience deploying Kubernetes-native platforms to FedRAMP/IL5/IL6 and STIG.
Strong client-facing leadership with engagements valued at $3M+.

Responsibilities

Serve as client-facing technical authority on platform pursuits.
Design and deliver secure hybrid cloud platforms using OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform, Vault.
Build core accelerators like STIG-hardened OpenShift architectures and cATO pipelines.
Lead platform demonstrations and proofs of concept to differentiate in bids.