Red Hat · 4 days ago
Architect, OpenShift Infrastructure Baremetal
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$128K/yr - $211K/yrRed Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, and they are seeking an OpenShift Virtualization and Infrastructure Architect. In this role, you will specialize in designing and developing automated container platforms and cloud-ready application architectures, while guiding implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects.
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Responsibilities
Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience
Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks
Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers
After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics
Ability to lead design workshops, create clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0/1/2 planning
Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives
Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
Willingness to travel to customer locations about 20-30 weeks per year on average throughout North America
Qualification
Required
Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
Experience leading successful modern cloud platform enterprise-level projects
Bare-Metal Infrastructure: Deep Linux (RHEL) and automated hardware provisioning (BIOS/UEFI, RAID, BMC/Redfish, Kickstart/Cobbler)
Advanced Networking: L2/L3 concepts, DHCP/DNS, Load Balancing, CNI (OVN-K, Calico, SR-IOV), and network security/firewall policies
Kubernetes/OpenShift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps
Storage: Distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/DR (Velero, OADP, Ceph/ODF)
Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm). Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
Security & Compliance: Linux/Kubernetes hardening (RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS/PKI), and compliance standards (NIST, CIS)
Observability: Logging/monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and advanced platform/network troubleshooting (etcd, kernel, tcpdump)
Knowledge of common AddOns or third party tools. (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)
Broad and deep technical experience with VMware: VMWare ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools, Logging and Alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk, Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX), Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols)
Ability to lead design workshops, create clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0/1/2 planning
Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives
Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
Willingness to travel to customer locations about 20-30 weeks per year on average throughout North America
Preferred
Additional technologies a plus: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
Experience across one or more vertical industry areas
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!
Company
Red Hat
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open-source software solutions. It is a sub-organization of IBM.
Founded in 1993
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Global Engineering
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