OpenShift Enterprise Architect

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The AEGIS program at Leidos is seeking a highly experienced OpenShift Enterprise Architect with 8 years of seniorlevel experience designing implementing and governing enterprise containerplatform architectures. This position supports NASAs Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI) Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRED) IT within a complex onpremises Red Hat OpenShift environment used to host enterprise applications such as the Maximo Application Suite (MAS) IBM Storage Fusion and other missioncritical workloads.

The architect will provide highlevel technical strategy platform governance integration design security architecture and crossorganizational leadership to ensure OpenShift remains secure scalable resilient and aligned with enterprise IT standards.

Enterprise Architecture & Platform Strategy

• Define the endtoend architecture for the enterprise OpenShift platform including cluster topology node architecture compute/storage strategy and highavailability patterns.

• Develop and maintain 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.

OpenShift Platform Design Governance & Lifecycle Management

• Design and architect onprem and hybrid OpenShift environments including installation upgrades cluster expansion multi-cluster governance and infrastructure dependencies.

• Oversee the design and governance of cluster objects (namespaces operators ingress storage classes policies RBAC quotas pod security standards).

• Ensure proper architectural controls for backup and restore DR/Failover strategy cluster federation and platform observability.

• Provide architectural oversight for application onboarding integration patterns and workload migrations into OpenShift.

Security Architecture Compliance & ZeroTrust Controls

• Implement enterprise security policies and zerotrust requirements across clusters.

• Architect platformwide certificate management PKI integration TLS enforcement secretsmanagement policies encrypted storage strategies and dataprotection baselines.

• Direct vulnerability remediation strategy patch management standards and secure configuration hardening.

Networking & Infrastructure Architecture

• Architect routing ingress load balancing reverse proxy DNS and firewall rule structures supporting resilient application connectivity.

• Define infrastructure integration patterns with hypervisors baremetal storage subsystems and enterprise identity platforms.

• Provide architectural guidance for crosscluster networking service mesh egress controls multitenancy boundaries and trafficengineering strategies.

Monitoring and Automation

• Architect endtoend observability solutions using Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager and enterprise logging platforms (e.g. Splunk).

• Define alerting strategy SLO/SLI metrics cluster health dashboards capacity analytics and anomalydetection baselines.

• Ensure data pipelines for logs metrics and events meet enterprise governance retention and compliance requirements.

• Establish automation standards using GitOps (ArgoCD) Ansible Terraform and OpenShift APIs.

CrossOrganizational Stakeholder Engagement & Continuous Improvement

• Produce architectural diagrams executive briefings governance documentation and technical decision packages.

• Recommend platform enhancements costoptimization opportunities efficiency improvements and modernization paths.

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Engineering or related field.

• Minimum 8 years of combined OpenShift Kubernetes and/or Linux experience.

• Must have a current RedHat OpenShift Administration certification or able to obtain certification within 6 months of employment.

• Proficient in OpenShift administration including cluster management application deployment configuration troubleshooting performance tuning and patching.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and principles.

• Solid experience with Linux operating systems including command-line skills and system administration tasks.

• Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms.

• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS load balancing and security.

• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues within the OpenShift environment.

• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python) for automation and system management.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across business and technical teams.

• Ability to learn quickly and work in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

• Experience supporting NASA or other federal enterprise OpenShift environments.

• Experience designing and maintaining Enterpriselevel integration architectures.

• Familiarity with user synchronization methods or largescale environment deployments.

• Experience using Jira Service Management or similar platforms for issue tracking.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

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