Cloud Solution Architect, OpenShift
Accenture
As a Cloud Solution Architect at Manager level, you drive and shape complex cloud and OpenShift transformations for large-scale enterprises. You will set technical direction, partner with clients and ecosystems, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms. You’ll tackle modernization, performance, and governance across multi-cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on OpenShift and containerization. This role offers high-impact work at the intersection of technology, business outcomes, and regulatory considerations.
Responsibilities- Lead client conversations to translate business goals into technical requirements and modernization roadmaps across cloud, containers, and legacy estates
- Define OpenShift platform standards and multi-cluster governance, including GitOps, Policy-as-Code, and platform lifecycle management
- Champion performance, resilience, security, and observability across cloud and OpenShift platforms, including disaster recovery and SRE/AIOps
- Mentor and manage teams of architects and engineers, providing coaching, governance, and career development
- Drive strategic modernization and operating model design leveraging OpenShift and related tooling with partner ecosystem
- Strategic Cloud Architecture with ability to link technical decisions to business outcomes (cost, resilience, speed to market)
- Advisory & Technical Leadership: communicate complex concepts to stakeholders and manage senior client relationships
- OpenShift Platform Architecture: hands-on design/operation of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes at scale in enterprise/regulatory settings
- OpenShift GitOps & Multi-Cluster Management: experience with ACM, Argo CD, GitOps workflows
- OpenShift Virtualization & Modernization: knowledge of OpenShift Virtualization and KubeVirt, VM lifecycle
- OpenShift & Kubernetes Networking: OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes networking concepts, Multus, secondary networks
- Segmentation, Multi-Tenancy & Zero Trust: namespace isolation, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust patterns
- CNI & Software-Defined Networking: OVN-Kubernetes, Cilium, Calico, or UDN/CUDN
- Architecture Delivery: ability to produce HLDs/LLDs, ADRs, reference architectures with stakeholder management
- Agentic AI Curiosity: interest in applying intelligent automation to platform engineering
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Leadership and coaching abilities
- Strategic thinking and business acumen
- OpenShift and Kubernetes in enterprise environments
- GitOps tooling (Argo CD, OpenShift GitOps, ACM)
- OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management
Reference: WJ-747_31196386