Senior Red Hat Architect: Federal Hybrid Cloud Leader

International Business Machines Corporation; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Red Hat Architect for federal mission systems. You will lead hybrid cloud platform efforts using Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, and Vault, delivering STIG-compliant solutions at IL5/IL6.

You will act as the client-facing technical authority, shaping pursuits over $3M and collaborating with IBM and Red Hat teams to win engagements in DoD, civilian, or intelligence contexts.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of enterprise platform engineering or architecture experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform in production environments.
• Hands-on expertise deploying and hardening Kubernetes-native platforms to federal security standards, including DISA STIG, FedRAMP, and IL5 or IL6 requirements.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering hybrid cloud infrastructure for federal clients across DoD, civilian, or intelligence community environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the client-facing technical authority on platform pursuits, partnering with Account Leaders to shape opportunities and convert them into signed engagements of $3M and above.
• Design and deliver secure hybrid cloud platforms, drawing on Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, HashiCorp Terraform, and Vault to integrate world-class solutions at federal classification depth.
• Build and own the practice's core accelerators, including STIG-hardened OpenShift reference architectures, the VMware migration factory, and continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) automation pipelines.
• Lead platform demonstrations and proofs of concept that establish technical differentiation in competitive pursuits.
• Collaborate with peer practices, IBM Technology, and Red Hat field teams to deliver integrated joint pursuits that expand deal size.

Skills

Client-facing

Technical leadership

Solution architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Ansible Automation Platform

Terraform

HashiCorp Vault

FedRAMP

STIG

VMware

Job description

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Red Hat Architect for federal mission systems. You will lead hybrid cloud platform efforts using Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, and Vault, delivering STIG-compliant solutions at IL5/IL6.

You will act as the client-facing technical authority, shaping pursuits over $3M and collaborating with IBM and Red Hat teams to win engagements in DoD, civilian, or intelligence contexts.