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About Opticca

Opticca excels in transforming IT architecture and applications, holding top-tier designations and certifications as a Microsoft Azure and Red Hat partner.

We leverage advanced AI and automation technologies to modernize IT infrastructures and applications.

We are committed to offering hands-on, forward-thinking solutions tailored for IT professionals, managers, and leaders aiming to revolutionize their technological framework and secure a competitive advantage.

About us

Permanent

Principal OpenShift Architect

Active

Location

Canada

About the hiring company

Opticca Consulting Inc. is a Canadian technology consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, enterprise landing zones, cloud migrations, and managed services. We help public sector and enterprise organizations modernize their infrastructure through secure, scalable, and automated cloud platforms built on Microsoft Azure.

Our consultants work on complex cloud transformation projects, implementing Azure environments using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices and Infrastructure-as-Code automation.

What we offer

Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud transformation projects
Exposure to enterprise Azure architectures
Collaborative consulting environment
Competitive compensation
Flexible hybrid work environment

About the opportunity

Opticca Consulting is seeking a highly experienced Principal OpenShift Architect to lead the design, implementation, modernization, and operational governance of enterprise Red Hat OpenShift platforms.

The Principal OpenShift Architect will serve as the technical authority for OpenShift architecture, advising executive stakeholders while leading engineering teams responsible for building highly available, secure, and scalable Kubernetes platforms.

The role requires someone comfortable designing production platforms supporting mission-critical workloads in regulated industries such as government, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, and large enterprise.

The successful candidate possesses deep expertise across modern OpenShift versions, Kubernetes, Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and enterprise security. They must be an exceptional communicator capable of translating complex technical concepts into business outcomes while mentoring architects, engineers, and client teams.

You can expect to

Architecture leadership

Own the end-to-end architecture of enterprise OpenShift platforms.
Lead platform strategy from assessment through production deployment.
Define platform standards, governance, and reference architectures.
Create High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).
Develop scalable architectures supporting multi-cluster environments.
Design highly available production platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.
Guide infrastructure modernization initiatives.
Provide architectural oversight throughout project lifecycle.

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OpenShift platform expertise

Must possess deep expertise in:
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
- OpenShift 4.x (latest supported releases)
- OpenShift Virtualization
- OpenShift GitOps
- OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)
- OpenShift Service Mesh
- OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)
- OpenShift AI
- Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
- Advanced Cluster Security (ACS)
- Red Hat Quay
- Red Hat Developer Hub
- Hosted Control Planes
- HyperShift
- Multi-cluster OpenShift architectures

Must understand:
- Operators
- Operator Lifecycle Manager
- Cluster Operators
- Machine Config Operator
- Cluster upgrades
- Cluster lifecycle
- Bare metal deployments
- Disconnected environments
- Air-gapped deployments
- Disaster recovery
- Platform resiliency

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Kubernetes expertise

Expert understanding of:
- Kubernetes architecture
- API Server
- etcd
- Scheduler
- Controllers
- CRDs
- RBAC
- Admission Controllers
- Namespaces
- Pods
- Deployments
- StatefulSets
- DaemonSets
- Services
- Ingress
- Routes
- ConfigMaps
- Secrets
- Persistent Volumes
- CSI
- Storage Classes
- Node lifecycle
- Cluster Autoscaling
- Pod Autoscaling
- Scheduling
- Affinity
- Taints and Tolerations

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Enterprise networking

Must demonstrate deep expertise designing secure Kubernetes networking including:
- Software Defined Networking
- OVN-Kubernetes
- OpenShift SDN
- BGP
- VLANs
- VXLAN
- DNS
- DHCP
- IPAM
- MTU optimization
- Routing
- Load balancing
- MetalLB
- F5 integration
- HAProxy
- NGINX
- Ingress Controllers
- Egress architecture
- Proxy configuration
- Multi-site networking
- East-West traffic
- North-South traffic
- Service Mesh architecture
- Istio
- Network Policies
- Firewall integration
- TLS termination
- PKI
- Certificate management

Experience integrating with:
- Cisco ACI
- VMware NSX
- Fortinet
- Palo Alto
- Check Point
- Juniper

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Enterprise storage

Extensive experience with:
- OpenShift Data Foundation
- Portworx
- Ceph
- NFS
- SAN
- NAS
- Fibre Channel
- iSCSI
- NVMe
- CSI Drivers
- Dynamic provisioning
- Snapshot management
- Persistent Volume design
- Replication
- Disaster Recovery
- Backup strategies
- Data resiliency
- Performance tuning

Experience integrating enterprise storage platforms including:
- Dell EMC
- NetApp
- Pure Storage
- IBM Storage
- Hitachi
- HPE Alletra

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Security

Deep understanding of enterprise security including:
- Zero Trust architecture
- Kubernetes security
- OpenShift Security Context Constraints
- Pod Security
- SELinux
- RBAC
- OAuth
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- SAML
- OIDC
- Multi-factor authentication
- Secrets management
- HashiCorp Vault
- CyberArk
- Certificate lifecycle
- PKI
- TLS
- Encryption at rest
- Encryption in transit
- Compliance frameworks
- CIS Benchmarks
- NIST
- PCI
- HIPAA
- SOC2
- FedRAMP (desirable)

Experience with:
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
- Aqua
- Prisma Cloud
- Sysdig Secure
- Falco

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Infrastructure

Strong knowledge of:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- VMware vSphere
- Hyper-V
- KVM
- Bare metal
- OpenStack
- Nutanix
- Storage networking
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Infrastructure automation

Cloud experience:
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
- AWS ROSA
- Google Cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Multi-cloud

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Automation & DevOps

Experience with:
- GitOps
- Argo CD
- Tekton
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Terraform
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Operators
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipelines

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Performance & Operations

Experience with:
- Capacity planning
- Platform sizing
- Performance optimization
- Scalability testing
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Alerting
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Elastic
- Splunk
- Day-2 operations
- Upgrades
- Patch management
- Incident response
- Root cause analysis

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Communication & Leadership

Exceptional communication skills are mandatory.

The successful candidate will:
- Communicate effectively with executives, business stakeholders, security teams, and engineering teams.
- Lead architecture workshops.
- Facilitate design reviews.
- Produce executive-ready documentation.
- Present architectural recommendations to senior leadership.
- Mentor architects and engineers.
- Resolve technical conflicts across cross-functional teams.
- Drive consensus among multiple stakeholders.
- Translate technical concepts into business value.

Must haves

Required qualifications

12+ years designing enterprise infrastructure.
8+ years working with Kubernetes platforms.
6+ years designing and implementing Red Hat OpenShift.
Proven experience leading enterprise OpenShift deployments supporting hundreds or thousands of nodes.
Extensive experience with current OpenShift 4.x releases and lifecycle management.
Strong Linux administration background.
Deep understanding of enterprise networking.
Deep understanding of enterprise storage.
Strong security architecture experience.
Experience with regulated enterprise environments.
Experience leading architecture teams.
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Preferred certifications

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Azure Administrator Associate
VMware VCP
TOGAF (preferred)
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Desired personal attributes

Outstanding communicator
Executive presence
Strong consulting mindset
Customer-focused
Strategic thinker
Exceptional problem solver
Calm under pressure
Team mentor and coach
Detail-oriented
Highly organized
Self-motivated
Continuous learner with a passion for emerging container platform technologies

Nice to haves

Experience

Sovereign cloud implementations
Government security environments
Air-gapped OpenShift deployments
Telecom platforms
Financial services
Healthcare
AI/ML platform deployment on OpenShift
GPU workloads
Edge computing
OpenShift Virtualization migrations
Migration from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization
Platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)

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