Senior OpenShift Cloud Architect (Remote)

Tetra Tech; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LS Technologies, a Tetra Tech Company, is seeking a System Engineer to serve as a senior technical lead and Red Hat OpenShift SME responsible for enterprise Kubernetes platforms, DevSecOps, and cloud-native modernization. The role is remote with responsibility to design, implement, and operate secure, scalable OpenShift environments across cloud and on‑premises infrastructure.

You will guide architecture, security, and operations, manage cluster upgrades and capacity planning, develop IaC with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS or comparable enterprise cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead as SME for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain highly available OpenShift clusters across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and on‑prem environments.
• Develop enterprise standards, governance, and operational procedures for OpenShift deployments.
• Manage cluster upgrades, lifecycle management, scaling, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Configure Operators, OperatorHub, MachineSets, MachineConfigPools, Routes, Ingress Controllers, Storage Classes, and networking components.
• Implement multi‑cluster management using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).
• Support OpenShift Virtualization where applicable.
• Design Kubernetes architectures following industry best practices.
• Manage namespaces, RBAC, quotas, network policies, secrets, service accounts, persistent storage, and workload scheduling.
• Design and implement enterprise CI/CD pipelines supporting secure software delivery.
• Develop IaC using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps methodologies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration management, and environment consistency.

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Argo CD

Flux

Istio

OpenShift Service Mesh

Job description

LS Technologies, a Tetra Tech Company, is seeking a System Engineer to serve as a senior technical lead and Red Hat OpenShift SME responsible for enterprise Kubernetes platforms, DevSecOps, and cloud-native modernization. The role is remote with responsibility to design, implement, and operate secure, scalable OpenShift environments across cloud and on‑premises infrastructure.

You will guide architecture, security, and operations, manage cluster upgrades and capacity planning, develop IaC with