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Description

As an organization, TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) provides a continuum of services ranging from Engagement Management to full functional Outsourcing including Offshore Centers in Canada and India. Our model provides the ability to engage customers beyond staffing when asked for more ownership, capabilities, or methodology while enhancing client/consultant support.

We partner with progressive leaders to create opportunity, accelerate business transformation and help build the enterprises of tomorrow. We work with 80% of the Fortune 500 to address their technology, strategy, and talent needs. We innovate so industries stay ahead of what’s next. As a full stack technology and talent services provider, we partner with our customers across the globe to own change. Join us.

At TEKsystems Global Services, we live in the tech world. We’re out in front of the trends and tools that shape industry and create fresh opportunities. All-in, fully engaged, high energy partnership is how we approach everything – our commitments and our people. Our people are at the center, fueling our high-performance and our inclusive culture.

We’re doers, looking for doers who do the right thing. Roll-up your sleeves thought-leaders focused on creating possible. Team champions who declare success only when everyone achieves their ambitions. Sound like the career experience you’ve been searching for? We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team. A practitioner who accelerates outcomes, affects positive change, and moves business forward.

Let’s partner. Together, we can accomplish amazing things.

Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires:

Red Hat OpenShift Architect

Job Summary

The OpenShift Architect is a specialized role responsible for providing consulting and delivery of services for clients through a range of internal and external functions. An OpenShift Architect is expected to have the experience and background to perform all the duties described below for engagements that are focused on consulting/delivery within the defined subject matter area, including solutions, platform integration, deliverables development, project planning, and executions, adherence to contract attributes and costing, customer interaction, and other key aspects of solution-based managed services.

For an Architect, these engagements will typically be delivered remotely or at the customer’s North America location. They are expected to have adequate level skills required for complex deliverable-based, fully outsourced, or extremely large-scale engagements or programs within cross-functional project/programs. This role may require up to 25% travel.

The ideal candidate will bring architect-level expertise with Red Hat Products, DevOps and Cloud services in development and operational excellence. They will provide expert level guidance for strategic ongoing and new TGS client initiatives. They will work amongst our other key partners with the development of robust cloud offerings and bring holistic solutions across key focus areas of TGS DevOps strategic objectives.

Additional responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

Own and drive forward specific areas of technology architecture, design, and governance. Provide expertise and leadership for DevOps and Cloud engagements through a range of internal and external functions in the following areas:

Engagement Delivery: Develop and deliver architectural solutions to the project execution team for TGS customers during implementation phases, as well as the setup of the engagement operating model. They will also define metrics and support the delivery of the defined statement of work along with identifying opportunities for service improvements

Practice Support: Provide mentorship, and expertise and implement changes in the design, development, and improvement of service offerings. Assist in researching and developing new offerings and analyze competing offerings to ensure our practice is current and competitive. Create and maintain practice artifacts documenting key methods, processes, and delivery tools.

Engagement Delivery Support Responsibilities

• Leadership in development and support for Transformation and DevOps projects on large enterprise applications

• Communicate and coordinated with developers and architects from customer and 3rd party teams

• Provide solution consulting and advice during the initiation and transition phases to the Delivery Manager as needed

• Attend project kick-off meetings, status reviews, and other delivery meetings as requested by the Delivery Manager

• Ensure engagement methodology is followed by team from opportunity assessment to project closeout

• Develop collaborative relationship with the Delivery team to support the organization from a delivery

perspective

• Demonstrated ability to communicate to a nontechnical audience on technical issues

• Demonstrated ability to communicate on a technical level to a technical audience

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Define the team's performance metrics in alignment to customers KPIs

Practice Support

• Collect and provide input into the design, development and improvement of service offerings and internal DevOps and Cloud accelerator programs

• Implement service offering changes in process and procedures

• Maintain and organize DevOps practice intellectual property

• Stay informed with regards to developments in the application management industry and maintain current knowledge of the generally accepted best practices in service transition and management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or other engineering or technical discipline is required

• 10+ years of experience in information technology and/or professional services, with emphasis on subject matter expertise

• At least 3 years of experience as an OpenShift Architect, deploying and maintaining clusters on both cloud and on-prem enterprise environments

• At least 5 years of experience with OpenShift RBAC, authentication, logging and monitoring

• At least 5 years of experience with Kubernetes and container workloads

• At least 3 years of experience with VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHV) and/or OpenStack Platform

• Experience with Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization and Migration Toolkit for Virtualization

• Candidate must have subject matter expertise with one the following Cloud Service Providers:

o Amazon Web Services (AWS)

o Microsoft Azure

o Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Strong practical Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) and Windows-based systems administration skills in a baremetal, Cloud or Virtualized environment

• Experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager

• Experience with external storage solutions supported by native CSI drivers

• Experience with source code and software collaboration technologies (e.g. GitHub, BitBucket, Artifactory)

• Experience with CI/CD orchestrations tools (e.g. Tekton, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

• Experience with GitOps methodology (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux CD, Codefresh)

• Experience with Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates)

• Knowledge of IP networking, VLANs, VP's, DNS, load balancers and firewalls

• Experience with iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS and other network file sharing protocols

• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems

• Ability to travel to client locations to deliver professional services, as needed

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS), OpenShift Data Foundations (ODF) and Quay

• Strong track record of designing and delivering projects of demonstrable complexity & scale

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash, Groovy)

• Ability to lead adoption and mentor team members on modern DevOps and architectural concepts

• Hands-on with Kubernetes clusters building, deploying, configuring. Bonus for Hybrid cluster experience

• Leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices

• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

• Familiarity in container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and cloud native frameworks

• Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts

• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on communicating technical requirements and solutions to internal and external audiences.

Certifications

Candidate must have architect level certifications in Red Hat OpenShift or Red Hat technologies

Candidate must have architect level certifications in either AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Skills

Openshift, Cloud, Red hat, Linux, Python, Java, Automation, Design, Devops, Microservices, Software engineering, Development, Kubernetes, ci/cd, Google cloud, Aws, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Architecture, Software development, Scripting

Top Skills Details

Openshift,Cloud,Red hat,Linux,Python,Java,Automation,Design,Devops,Microservices,Software engineering,Development,Kubernetes,ci/cd

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or other engineering or technical discipline is required

• 5+ years of experience in information technology and/or professional services, with emphasis on subject matter expertise

• At least 3 years of experience as an OpenShift Engineer, deploying and maintaining clusters on both cloud and on-prem enterprise environments

• At least 3 years experience with OpenShift RBAC, authentication, logging and monitoring

• At least 3 years experience with Kubernetes and container workloads

• At least 3 years experience with Red Hat Enterprise Virtulization (RHV) and/or OpenStack Platform

• Experience with Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtulization and Migration Toolkit for Virtulization

• Candidate must have subject matter expertise with one the following Cloud Service Providers:

o Amazon Web Services (AWS)

o Microsoft Azure

o Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Strong practical Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) and Windows-based systems administration skills in a baremetal, Cloud or Virtualized environment

• Experience with Red Hat High Availability Cluster

• Experience with source code and software collaboration technologies (e.g. GitHub, BitBucket, Artifactory)

• Experience with CI/CD orchestrations tools (e.g. Tekton, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

• Experience with GitOps methodology (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux CD, Codefresh)

• Experience with Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates)

• Knowledge of IP networking, VLANs, VP's, DNS, load balancers and firewalls

• Experience with iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS and other network file sharing protocols

• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems

• Ability to travel to client locations to deliver professional services, as needed

• Strong track record of delivering projects of demonstrable complexity & scale

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash, Groovy)

• Ability to lead adoption and mentor team members on modern DevOps and architectural concepts

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Experience Level

Expert Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Remote, OR.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $148200.00 - $224000.00/yr.

We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification.

Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc.

Our full-time, internal employment benefits include the following:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents)• Short and Long-Term Disability• Health Spending Account (HSA)• Transportation Benefits• Employee Assistance Program• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 21, 2025.

h4>About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.