Senior Red Hat Architect, Hybrid Cloud and Data, IBM Consulting Federal

About the role

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. As the Senior Red Hat Architect within the IBM Technology and Red Hat Practice, you are the hybrid cloud platform technical lead for federal mission systems, bringing deep expertise in OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and the broader Red Hat stack to stand up FedRAMP-authorized hybrid cloud at IL5 and IL6 with full Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the client-facing technical authority on platform pursuits, partnering with Account Leaders to shape opportunities and convert them into signed engagements of $3M and above.
• Design and deliver secure hybrid cloud platforms, drawing on Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, HashiCorp Terraform, and HashiCorp Vault to integrate world-class solutions at federal classification depth.
• Build and own the practice's core accelerators, including STIG-hardened OpenShift reference architectures, the VMware migration factory, and continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) automation pipelines, compressing delivery timelines by 40 to 60 percent against blank-whiteboard alternatives.
• Lead platform demonstrations and proofs of concept that establish technical differentiation in competitive pursuits.
• Collaborate with peer practices, IBM Technology, and Red Hat field teams to deliver integrated joint pursuits that expand deal size and advance the platform-layer strategy.

Requirements

• Ten or more years of enterprise platform engineering or architecture experience, with demonstrated depth in Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform in production environments.
• Hands-on expertise deploying and hardening Kubernetes-native platforms to federal security standards, including DISA STIG, FedRAMP, and IL5 or IL6 requirements.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering hybrid cloud infrastructure for federal clients across DoD, civilian, or intelligence community environments.
• Client-facing experience leading technical solutioning on engagements valued at $3M and above, including solution design, estimation, and pursuit support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) or equivalent advanced Red Hat certifications in OpenShift and Ansible.
• Experience with air-gapped, SCIF, or tactical edge deployments, including Iron Bank operator catalogs and MicroShift.
• Familiarity with the IBM platform stack, including Instana, Turbonomic, and HashiCorp products, in federal operations contexts.
• Working knowledge of continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) pipelines and DevSecOps practices in classified or regulated environments.

Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree