Principal OpenShift GitOps & Virtualisation Architect

Job Description – Principal OpenShift GitOps & Virtualisation Architect

Location: Dublin 18 (2 days onsite per week)

Duration: Until the end of the year, likely to be extended

Summary of this role: This resource will own the automation, governance and platform lifecycle architecture for the OpenShift estate. They will be responsible for defining how OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualisation environments are deployed, governed, upgraded and operated at scale using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM), OpenShift GitOps and Argo CD.

A key responsibility will be reviewing and maturing an existing GitOps implementation, assessing current approaches and helping define the future-state operating model for both container and virtual machine platforms. The role will also help shape VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualisation migration patterns and application modernisation strategies, including the containerisation of suitable workloads.

This is a hands-on architecture role. The successful candidate must be capable of defining standards, producing architecture deliverables, guiding implementation teams and providing technical leadership across GitOps, OpenShift Virtualisation, multi-cluster governance and platform automation.

Skillset and background:

• 10+ years of platform engineering, automation or infrastructure architecture experience
  
• 5+ years of hands-on OpenShift experience
  
• Expert-level experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
  
• Expert-level experience with Argo CD and OpenShift GitOps
  
• Strong experience designing and operating multi-cluster OpenShift environments
  
• Experience reviewing, rationalising and maturing GitOps implementations in large enterprise environments
  
• Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift Virtualisation and KubeVirt
  
• Experience designing and operating OpenShift Virtualisation platforms for enterprise VM workloads
  
• Experience defining VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualisation migration strategies and operating models
  
• Experience assessing application estates for containerisation and defining modernisation pathways
  
• Strong understanding of GitOps governance, Policy-as-Code and platform lifecycle management
  
• Experience designing disaster recovery and recovery orchestration models for OpenShift platforms
  
• Ability to produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), standards and reference architectures
  
• Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills
  
• Red Hat OpenShift, ACM, GitOps or OpenShift Virtualisation certifications would be advantageous
  

Key Deliverables:

• Review the existing GitOps, ACM and platform automation implementation and provide recommendations for improvement
  
• Define the target-state OpenShift GitOps and platform operating model
  
• Mature ACM, Argo CD and OpenShift GitOps capabilities and operating practices
  
• Define OpenShift Virtualisation standards, governance and VM lifecycle management patterns
  
• Establish VMware migration and application modernisation onboarding patterns
  
• Define platform governance, disaster recovery and operational resilience standards
  
• Produce the required HLDs, LLDs, standards and reference architectures
  
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineering and delivery teams