Accenture

Red Hat OpenShift Platform - Architect

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23 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, configure, and continuously improve Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments across on-premises and hybrid infrastructure.
  • Own OpenShift installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity management, and cluster health management.
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and platform automation using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Implement GitOps-based platform and application deployment patterns with Argo CD and enterprise CI/CD tooling.
  • Engineer platform security capabilities including RBAC, network policies, secrets, certificates, image security, policy enforcement, and identity integrations.
  • Support OpenShift networking, storage, registries, ingress, operators, service mesh, and other ecosystem components.
  • Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve platform availability, resilience, observability, performance, and supportability.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry-driven platform improvement.
  • Lead diagnosis, resolution, root-cause analysis, and prevention of complex platform incidents and recurring problems.
  • Produce technical documentation, engineering standards, operational runbooks, and reusable platform patterns.
  • Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to engineers and teams adopting OpenShift.
  • Work with architects, infrastructure, application, operations, Red Hat, and other technology vendor teams.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience engineering and operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in production enterprise environments.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration, scheduling, networking, storage, security, operators, and cluster lifecycle management.
  • Strong Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
  • Hands-on Infrastructure as Code and automation experience, particularly with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Experience implementing GitOps and CI/CD approaches using tools such as Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton, or Azure DevOps.
  • Strong understanding of platform security, including RBAC, network segmentation, certificates, secrets, vulnerability management, and secure container supply chains.
  • Experience with container-platform observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance analysis.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across platform, network, storage, security, and application integration layers.
  • Experience in large enterprise environments where availability, resilience, auditability, and controlled change are important.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder skills across engineering, architecture, and operations teams.
  • Preferred experience with bare-metal or virtualized on-premises OpenShift deployments, highly available or disaster-recovery architectures, public cloud, and regulated environments.
  • Preferred experience with RHACM, RHACS, ODF, Quay, Service Mesh, Keycloak, or Satellite.
  • Preferred experience coaching engineers, leading technical workstreams, or serving as a platform engineering subject matter expert.
  • Preferred certifications include Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, RHCE or relevant Red Hat automation certification, CKA, and HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate or equivalent.

Tech Stack

AnsibleArgo CDAWSAzureGitHub ActionsJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftTektonTerraform

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Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.

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