Senior Red Hat Architect: Federal Hybrid Cloud Lead

Cacheflow; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a Senior Red Hat Architect to lead federal hybrid cloud platform initiatives. You will translate complex requirements into secure OpenShift and Ansible‑based solutions for federal mission systems, achieving STIG compliance and FedRAMP authorization.

You will serve as the technical authority on platform pursuits, shaping opportunities with account leaders and driving delivery with accelerators and automation to win engagements often above $3M.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in enterprise platform engineering or architecture.
• Deep production experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible.
• Experience deploying Kubernetes-native platforms to federal standards (STIG, FedRAMP).

Responsibilities

• Serve as client-facing technical authority on platform pursuits.
• Design and deliver secure hybrid cloud platforms with Red Hat/OpenShift.
• Lead demonstrations and proofs of concept to differentiate in competitive pursuits.

Skills

OpenShift

Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat stack

Kubernetes hardening

FedRAMP/STIG

Hybrid cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Vault

VMware migration

OpenShift reference architectures

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks a Senior Red Hat Architect to lead federal hybrid cloud platform initiatives. You will translate complex requirements into secure OpenShift and Ansible‑based solutions for federal mission systems, achieving STIG compliance and FedRAMP authorization.

You will serve as the technical authority on platform pursuits, shaping opportunities with account leaders and driving delivery with accelerators and automation to win engagements often above $3M.