Solution Architect - Cloud Kubernetes

Role summary: We are seeking an experienced Cloud Kubernetes Solution Architect to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade container, cloud, and virtualization platforms. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP), Kubernetes, Linux, automation, networking, security, and hybrid cloud integration. The ideal candidate will act as a technical authority for cloud-native architecture, platform modernization, and production operations across private and public cloud environments. Key Responsiblities: • Design and govern scalable Kubernetes and OpenShift architectures for enterprise workloads, including multi-cluster, multi-tenant, high-availability, and disaster recovery designs. • Lead the architecture, deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform environments. • Define platform standards for networking, storage, security, identity integration, monitoring, logging, backup, and capacity planning. • Integrate OpenShift and OpenStack platforms with enterprise systems, CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, service catalogs, and cloud management platforms. • Develop infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and OpenShift Operators. • Provide technical leadership for application modernization, containerization, microservices deployment, and migration to cloud-native platforms. • Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, operations, and architecture teams to translate business requirements into secure and reliable technical solutions. • Troubleshoot complex platform issues across Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization layers. • Establish best practices for platform reliability, observability, compliance, vulnerability management, patching, and operational runbooks. • Support hybrid cloud and multi-cloud initiatives involving Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, and enterprise private cloud platforms. • Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, administering, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform in production environments. • Strong practical expertise in Kubernetes architecture, cluster administration, workload management, namespaces, RBAC, ingress, operators, persistent storage, and container networking. • Deep understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, system hardening, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. • Proven experience with OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Horizon, Heat, and related infrastructure components. • Experience with OpenShift installation methods, cluster upgrades, node management, registry integration, image management, monitoring, logging, and platform security. • Strong knowledge of virtualization, compute, storage, software-defined networking, load balancing, DNS, firewalls, and data center infrastructure. • Hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Git, Helm, and CI/CD platforms. • Ability to create high-level and low-level design documents, architecture diagrams, implementation plans, migration strategies, and operational procedures. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills. Technical Skills • Container Platforms: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Operators, Helm, and GitOps. • Private Cloud: Red Hat OpenStack Platform, OpenStack networking, compute, block storage, image services, identity services, and orchestration. • Automation: Ansible, Terraform, shell scripting, Python scripting, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management. • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Monitoring, logging stacks, alerting, capacity reporting, and operational dashboards. • Security: RBAC, identity integration, certificates, image security, network policies, compliance controls, vulnerability remediation, and platform hardening. • Networking and Storage: SDN, OVN, VLAN/VXLAN, load balancers, DNS, routing, firewalls, persistent volumes, Ceph, SAN, NAS, and object storage concepts. • Public Cloud Knowledge: Good working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Platform services, especially PaaS, container, networking, identity, monitoring, and integration services. Preferred Certifications • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent OpenShift certification. • Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Certified Architect, or comparable Linux/OpenShift credential. • Red Hat OpenStack Platform certification or proven equivalent hands-on project experience. • Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, or cloud architecture certifications are preferred.