Open Shift Architect

Job Title: Open Shift Architect

Location: College Park, MD

Company/ Program Description:

Centuria, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), has been delivering IT, Engineering, and Scientific solutions to the Federal Government since 2002. During our two decades of service we have earned the trust and respect of our government clients for the simple reason that we have great people who are experts in their fields and take pride and ownership in everything they do.

The Washington Post has recognized Centuria Corporation as one of the top workplaces in the DC Metro area for 2024. This award celebrates nationally recognized companies that make the world a better place to work together by prioritizing a people-centered culture and giving employees a voice. The Top Workplaces USA award is based entirely on feedback from an employee engagement survey completed by the employees of participating workplaces. Centuria is honored to have been awarded this

distinction.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available container platforms using Red Hat OpenShift

Establish enterprise reference architectures, standards, and design patterns for containerized workloads

Oversee deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management strategies for OpenShift clusters. Both OVE and OKE Clusters

Evaluate and recommend infrastructure designs for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments

Ensure container platform designs comply with Federal security requirements (e.g., NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or agency-specific standards)

Lead migration strategies for transitioning legacy applications to container-based architectures and migrating VMware VMs into Open Shift OVE

Provide technical leadership to engineers, DevOps teams, and Government stakeholders

Develop and review high-level and low-level architecture documentation, including diagrams, roadmaps, and implementation plans

Serve as escalation point for complex platform issues and architectural decisions

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide knowledge transfer to Government staff

Job Requirements:

Deep expertise with Red Hat OpenShift architecture and operations

Multi-cluster design and management

Cluster sizing, capacity planning, and performance tuning

OpenShift upgrades, lifecycle management, and platform governance

OpenShift virtualization and container-native storage concepts

Platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting

Advanced understanding of Kubernetes internals

Networking, ingress, service meshes, and DNS

Security contexts, RBAC, admission controllers, and policies

Stateful and stateless workloads

Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)

High availability and disaster recovery architectures

Cloud & Infrastructure Experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

VMware and on-premises environments

Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures

Key infrastructure knowledge:

Compute, storage, and networking

Load balancers and firewalls

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Identity and access management

Security Skills:

Zero-trust architecture principles

Container security and image scanning

Secrets management

Compliance frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)

Network segmentation and policy design

Identity integration (LDAP, Active Directory, SSO)