Technology Architect | Container Platform | Kubernetes

About the role

This position is for a Technology Architect with expertise in Container Platform and Kubernetes, located in Richmond, VA 23219, with a hybrid onsite work arrangement. The contract duration is 6 months, with a target start date of July 14, 2026. The client is seeking a candidate with strong hands-on experience in GitHub Enterprise Cloud administration and GitHub Actions CI/CD implementation.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing security, governance, and policy controls, including enterprise-wide governance, root-level policies, compliance standards, and audit controls. They will also be involved in application onboarding and CI pipeline migration, as well as CI/CD standardization and enterprise-scale templatization.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in GitHub Enterprise Cloud / GHECD administration, including enterprise account setup, organization structure, repository governance, project structure, and branching strategy.
• Expertise in GitHub Actions CI/CD implementation, including workflow design, reusable pipeline templates, runner selection strategy, and validation across targeted technology stacks.
• Experience with GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, including Linux/Windows runners, OpenShift/ARO-based runner setup, Actions Runner Controller (ARC), runner lifecycle management, and autoscaling.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps and GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), including code scanning, secret scanning, dependency review, and security policy enforcement.
• Experience in enterprise identity and access integration, including Okta SSO, SAML, MFA, SCIM provisioning, RBAC, role mapping, and access governance.
• Hands-on experience integrating GitHub with enterprise DevSecOps tools such as OpenShift, CyberArk Conjur, Sonatype Nexus, Tosca, qTest, Playwright, Argo CD, ServiceNow, and Jira.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of experience and strong understanding of monitoring, logging, alerting, and audit log streaming, including SIEM integration, Dynatrace/self-hosted runner monitoring, pipeline failure notifications, and ServiceNow ticket automation.

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in GitHub Enterprise Cloud / GHECD administration.
• Expertise in GitHub Actions CI/CD implementation.
• Experience with GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps and GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS).
• Experience in enterprise identity and access integration.
• Hands-on experience integrating GitHub with enterprise DevSecOps tools.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience in application onboarding and CI pipeline migration.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, alerting, and audit log streaming.
• Experience in CI/CD standardization and enterprise-scale templatization.
• Knowledge of performance and scalability validation for GitHub Actions runners.
• Ability to define and support operating model, documentation, enablement, go-live support, license/user scaling approach, and production readiness validation for enterprise adoption.