Red Hat Open Shift Architect

Statement of Work: Contractor shall provide an OpenShift Architect to lead the design and implementation of a scalable container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, ensuring high availability, security compliance, and alignment with enterprise DevOps practices. The Architect will define reference architectures, support workload migration, and establish operational best practices. The resource will also assist in building Clusters to migrate Virtual Machines from VMWare into OpenShift OVE as well as build Clusters for OKE for modernization of Apps into Containers

Task Description:

The OpenShift Architect shall:

Lead the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available container platforms using Red Hat OpenShift
Establish enterprise reference architectures, standards, and design patterns for containerized workloads
Oversee deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management strategies for OpenShift clusters. Both OVE and OKE Clusters
Evaluate and recommend infrastructure designs for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments
Ensure container platform designs comply with Federal security requirements (e.g., NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or agency-specific standards)
Lead migration strategies for transitioning legacy applications to container-based architectures and migrating VMware VMs into Open Shift OVE
Provide technical leadership to engineers, DevOps teams, and Government stakeholders
Develop and review high-level and low-level architecture documentation, including diagrams, roadmaps, and implementation plans
Serve as escalation point for complex platform issues and architectural decisions
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide knowledge transfer to Government staff
Required skills/Level of Experience :

OpenShift Skills

Deep expertise with Red Hat OpenShift architecture and operations
Multi-cluster design and management
Cluster sizing, capacity planning, and performance tuning
OpenShift upgrades, lifecycle management, and platform governance
OpenShift virtualization and container-native storage concepts
Platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting
Kubernetes Expertise

Advanced understanding of Kubernetes internals
Networking, ingress, service meshes, and DNS
Security contexts, RBAC, admission controllers, and policies
Stateful and stateless workloads
Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
High availability and disaster recovery architectures
Cloud & Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
VMware and on-premises environments
Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
Key infrastructure knowledge:

Compute, storage, and networking
Load balancers and firewalls
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Identity and access management
Security Skills

Zero-trust architecture principles
Container security and image scanning
Secrets management
Compliance frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)
Network segmentation and policy design