Senior OpenShift Enterprise Platform Architect

Via Logic LLC; Greenbelt (MD); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Maryland is seeking an OpenShift Enterprise Architect with 8+ years of senior-level experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise container-platform architectures.

This role supports NASA’s Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI) Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRED) IT within a complex on-premises OpenShift environment used to host enterprise applications such as the Maximo Application Suite (MAS), IBM Storage Fusion, and other mission-critical workloads.

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.
• Proficient in OpenShift administration, cluster management, deployment, troubleshooting, and patching.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and Linux system administration.
• Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, load balancing, and security.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation and system management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for the enterprise OpenShift platform, including cluster topology and high-availability patterns.
• Develop lifecycle plans, deployment workflows, and CM baselines.
• Establish architectural standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns for containerized workloads.
• Lead platform capacity planning, scalability modeling, and performance optimization initiatives.
• Provide architectural oversight for application onboarding, integration patterns, and workload migrations into OpenShift.
• Architect security policies, zero-trust controls, certificate management, and encryption strategies.
• Define infrastructure integration patterns and cross-cluster networking guidance.
• Architect observability and automation using GitOps, Ansible, Terraform, and OpenShift APIs.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Kubernetes concepts

Linux system administration

RedHat OpenShift certification

Container orchestration

Python scripting

Security architecture

Networking concepts

Cross-functional communication

Rapid learning

Education

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

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Alertmanager

Splunk

ArgoCD

Ansible

Terraform

OpenShift API

Jira Service Management

Job description

Leidos in Maryland is seeking an OpenShift Enterprise Architect with 8+ years of senior-level experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise container-platform architectures.

This role supports NASA’s Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI) Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRED) IT within a complex on-premises OpenShift environment used to host enterprise applications such as the Maximo Application Suite (MAS), IBM Storage Fusion, and other mission-critical workloads.