Senior Specialist Solution Architect

*Telecommuting role to be performed anywhere in the U.S.

Design and architect enterprise container platform solutions using Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes for customers across private public and hybrid cloud environments including migration strategies from legacy and VMware-based infrastructure to containerized platforms.

What You Will Do:

• Deploy configure and manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters for Proof of Concept (PoC) engagements creating custom YAML manifests Helm charts and Kubernetes Operators to demonstrate platform capabilities aligned with customer requirements.
• Implement and configure service mesh solutions using Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh including traffic management mutual TLS security observability and canary deployment strategies for microservices architectures.
• Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines using Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) ArgoCD (Red Hat OpenShift GitOps) and Jenkins to enable automated application build test and deployment workflows for enterprise customers.
• Design container networking solutions including ingress controllersgateway api network policies and integration with CNCF projects such as Calico and Envoy for secure and scalable application connectivity on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus Grafana and distributed tracing tools such as Jaeger for containerized workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift including custom metrics-based autoscaling for REST and event-driven (Kafka) applications.
• Develop automation solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Terraform and scripting languages (Bash Golang) to streamline infrastructure provisioning cluster lifecycle management and application deployment across multi-cloud environments.
• Architect container autoscaling strategies using Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) custom Prometheus metrics and metric server adapters to optimize resource utilization and application performance on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform including cluster operations pod scheduling storage networking and upgrade issues to restore normal functioning in customer environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management engineering and field sales to translate customer technical requirements into solution architectures and contribute to product roadmap feedback based on field engagements.
• Create technical content including reference architectures solution briefs blogs on Red Hat Developer portal and official documentation to share best practices for container orchestration CI/CD and cloud-native application design.
• Design and develop Java-based software solutions and Android applications to support enterprise platform tooling including building custom utilities mobile management interfaces and automation tools using Java Android SDK and Git-based version control workflows to enhance platform adoption and customer enablement for Red Hat OpenShift environments.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelors degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Electronic Engineering Computer Science or related field and ten (10) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Must have seven (7) years of experience with: Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Docker and container orchestration technologies including deploying and managing containerized applications in private public and hybrid cloud environments; and software development using Java and version control systems (including Git and SVN) including designing developing and maintaining enterprise software solutions.
• Must have five (5) years of experience with: Red Hat OpenShift service mesh technologies including Istio and Linkerd traffic management mTLS and observability for microservices architectures; CI/CD pipeline design and implementation using Jenkins ArgoCD (GitOps) and Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines for automated build test and deployment workflows; container networking including ingress controllers network policies and CNCF projects including Calico and Envoy; and observability and monitoring tools including Prometheus Grafana Jaeger Elasticsearch and Fluent-bit for containerized workloads.
• Must have three (3) years of experience with: infrastructure automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Terraform and scripting languages (Bash Golang); and container autoscaling using Kubernetes HPA custom Prometheus metrics and metric server adapters for REST and Kafka-based workloads.
• Must have two (2) years of experience with Android application design and development using Android SDK Android Studio and build tools (including Gradle and Maven) including developing performance-driven Android components and releasing applications to production.
  

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The salary range for this position is $130000 - $190000/year. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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