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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting NASA or other federal enterprise OpenShift environments.
• Experience designing and maintaining Enterprise‑level integration architectures.
• Familiarity with user synchronization methods or large‑scale environment deployments.
• Experience using Jira Service Management or similar platforms for issue tracking.

Responsibilities

• Define the end‑to‑end architecture for the enterprise OpenShift platform, including cluster topology, node architecture, compute/storage strategy, and high‑availability 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.
• Design and architect on‑prem 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.
• Implement enterprise security policies and zero‑trust requirements across clusters.
• Architect platform‑wide certificate management, PKI integration, TLS enforcement, secrets‑management policies, encrypted storage strategies, and data‑protection baselines.
• Direct vulnerability remediation strategy, patch management standards, and secure configuration hardening.
• Architect routing, ingress, load balancing, reverse proxy, DNS, and firewall rule structures supporting resilient application connectivity.
• Define infrastructure integration patterns with hypervisors, bare‑metal, storage subsystems, and enterprise identity platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance for cross‑cluster networking, service mesh, egress controls, multitenancy boundaries, and traffic‑engineering strategies.
• Architect end‑to‑end 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 anomaly‑detection 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.
• Produce architectural diagrams, executive briefings, governance documentation, and technical decision packages.
• Recommend platform enhancements, cost‑optimization opportunities, efficiency improvements, and modernization paths.

Benefits

• Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.