Design Architect

Location: London

Contract -Inside IR 35

Hybrid -2 days from office

Client : Global tech & consulting company that helps businesses with IT services, digital transformation, AI solutions, cloud, cybersecurity, and a wide range of industry-specific technology services.

We are seeking an experienced OpenShift Architecture and Migration Design Specialist to lead the end-to-end design, planning, and execution of enterprise-grade OpenShift platforms and migration strategies. This role is critical in shaping a robust, scalable, and secure OpenShift environment while ensuring seamless migration of workloads and applications from existing infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise across OpenShift, VMware, Pure Storage, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures.

• Design target-state OpenShift architectures including cluster topology, networking, and storage.
• Define and implement best practices for multi-zone and multi-region OpenShift deployments.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and enterprise-grade resilience.

• Assess existing infrastructure, applications, and workloads for migration readiness.
• Develop comprehensive migration strategies covering containerization, workload transfer, and data migration.
• Implement migration processes with minimal downtime and operational disruption.
• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies for smooth migration.

• Design OpenShift deployments integrated with VMware virtualisation environments.
• Leverage VMware tools (vSphere, vCenter, NSX) to optimise cluster performance and interoperability.
• Configure and manage Pure Storage solutions (FlashArray, FlashBlade) to support OpenShift workloads.
• Ensure compatibility, performance optimisation, and operational efficiency across platforms.

• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines tailored to OpenShift environments.
• Integrate DevOps workflows using OpenShift-native and third-party tools.
• Automate deployment, scaling and monitoring to enhance application delivery lifecycle.

• Ensure designs and migration plans support long-term scalability and future growth.
• Implement security best practices including RBAC, network policies, and encryption.
• Perform regular security assessments to maintain compliance and governance standards.

• Partner closely with development, DevOps, operations, and architecture teams.
• Produce detailed documentation covering architecture, migration steps, workflows, and configurations.
• Provide technical leadership, training, and advisory support to internal teams.

• Strong experience designing and implementing OpenShift architectures and migrations.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, orchestration, and cloud-native principles.
• Hands-on expertise with VMware (vSphere, vCenter, NSX).
• Experience with Pure Storage solutions (FlashArray, FlashBlade).
• Strong understanding of networking (ingress, load balancing, DNS) and storage frameworks (PVs, dynamic provisioning).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub, ArgoCD, etc.
• Strong understanding of HA, scalability, and security in cloud-native environments.
• Proven experience migrating workloads/applications to OpenShift or similar platforms.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting: Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

• Red Hat OpenShift certifications (RHCSA/OCP Specialist).
• Experience with multi-cluster or hybrid-cloud OpenShift deployments.
• Familiarity with monitoring & logging tools (oTel, Grafana, Splunk stack).
• Knowledge of OpenShift Operators and Helm charts.
• Experience delivering large-scale migration programmes.

If you are an OpenShift expert passionate about designing enterprise-grade platforms and leading complex migrations, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now with your CV.