Senior OpenShift Administrator

About the role

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs provide seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. The ATCs solve clients’ business problems by leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, and new IT and technology skills.

As a Network, ATCs unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for clients. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape boundaryless career paths in a collaborative team of experts, learning from each other to solve complex client challenges.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters deployed on-premises (bare-metal / VMware) and in Microsoft Azure (ARO – Azure Red Hat OpenShift).
• Perform cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, patching, node scaling, and certificate rotation with minimal disruption to production workloads.
• Monitor cluster health using OpenShift built-in tools, Prometheus, Grafana, and enterprise observability stacks; respond to and resolve platform-level incidents.
• Manage OpenShift networking components including SDN/OVN-Kubernetes, routes, ingress controllers, and network policies.
• Administer OpenShift storage integrations (OCS/ODF, persistent volumes, storage classes) for stateful workloads.
• Enforce RBAC, security context constraints (SCC), and image policy controls aligned to client security standards.
• Support CI/CD pipeline integrations with OpenShift (Tekton Pipelines, ArgoCD / OpenShift GitOps, Jenkins).
• Collaborate with application and DevOps teams on containerization best practices, Helm chart management, and Operator lifecycle management (OLM).
• Maintain and improve Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates using Ansible, Terraform, or OpenShift/Kubernetes manifests.
• Participate in change management processes; ensure all platform changes meet lead-time requirements and are communicated proactively to client stakeholders.
• Support or advise on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster operations including node pool management, Azure AD integration, and Azure CNI/policy add-ons.
• Provide operational support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments including Autopilot/Standard cluster management and GCP IAM integration.
• Contribute to cross-platform standardization efforts for observability, security, and GitOps practices across OpenShift, AKS, and GKE.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift in production enterprise environments, including demonstrated experience with OpenShift on-premises deployments (bare-metal, VMware vSphere, or IPI/UPI installations).
• A minimum of 5 years of experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) or OpenShift deployments in Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).

Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x — cluster installation, upgrade, and day-2 operations.
• Kubernetes core concepts: workloads, services, ingress, RBAC, namespaces, custom resources, and operators.
• Networking: OVN-Kubernetes, load balancers, DNS, TLS/certificate management.
• Storage: OCS/ODF, CSI drivers, persistent volume provisioning.
• Monitoring & logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch/Loki, OpenShift cluster logging operator.
• Scripting and automation: Bash, Python, Ansible.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform or equivalent.
• Source control and GitOps: Git, ArgoCD / OpenShift GitOps.
• Container image management: Quay, OpenShift internal registry, image scanning.

Qualifications

• Strong background supporting large, complex client environments with high availability and compliance requirements (healthcare, financial services, or similar regulated industries preferred).
• Experience with Linux system administration (RHEL/CoreOS) and container runtime fundamentals.

Schedule

This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

Hiring locations: Tampa, Orlando, or Columbus.

Pay

Compensation varies depending on office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The following ranges are provided as required by local law:

• California: $73,800 to $182,600
• Cleveland: $68,300 to $146,100
• Colorado: $73,800 to $157,800
• District of Columbia: $78,500 to $168,000
• Illinois: $68,300 to $157,800
• Maine: $62,800 to $134,400
• Maryland: $73,800 to $157,800
• Massachusetts: $73,800 to $168,000
• Minnesota: $73,800 to $157,800
• New York: $68,300 to $182,600
• New Jersey: $78,500 to $182,600
• Virginia: $68,300 to $168,000
• Washington: $80,200 to $168,000

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.

See more information on U.S. Employee Benefits.