Open Shift Architect

centuria· NCEP
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📍 College Park, MDFull Time

About this role

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)

 

 

 

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This Open Shift Architect role at centuria is based in College Park, MD. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
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This is listed as a Full Time position. It is posted as a Open Shift Architect role in the NCEP department at centuria.
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This Open Shift Architect position at centuria was posted on Jun 26, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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