Bench IT Limited

OpenShift Architect (On-Prem Infrastructure & GitOps), £650 per day inside IR35 6 months initially, Remote Working Bench IT require an experienced OpenShift Architect to lead the technical design, build, and implementation of our on-premises Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) infrastructure. In this end-to-end technical role, you will take full ownership of the platform life cycle - facilitating design workshops, building GitOps-driven architectures, driving application onboarding, and executing greenfield deployments from scratch in a highly regulated environment. Key Responsibilities End-to-End Execution: Drive all technical deliverables across the full project life cycle, from initial concept and High-Level Design (HLD)/Low-Level Design (LLD) to hands-on build and infrastructure implementation. Greenfield OCP Deployment: Deploy, configure, and validate on-premises Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters from scratch across multiple client environments. Application Onboarding & Team Engagement: Actively engage with platform engineering and application teams to establish onboarding patterns, developer workflows, and migration strategies to successfully onboard applications onto the platform. Advanced On-Premises Container Networking: Architect and implement enterprise container networking architectures, including OVN-Kubernetes, User-Defined Networks (UDN), Multus CNI (for multi-network Pod interfaces), NMState/NNCP for host node networking, MetalLB/BGP for on-prem load balancing, Ingress/Egress routing, and Service Mesh (Istio/Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh). GitOps & Continuous Delivery: Implement GitOps practices using Argo CD/OpenShift GitOps for automated, version-controlled cluster provisioning, configuration management, and application life cycle management. Virtualization & Workload Migration: Design and advise on OpenShift Virtualization (OVE) architectures, leading virtual machine migration strategies away from Legacy hypervisors (specifically Broadcom/VMware vSphere). Infrastructure & Security Integration: Integrate platform architecture with enterprise storage (CSI, persistent storage solutions), physical datacenter hardware, and strict security baselines. Design Workshops & Stakeholder Communication: Lead interactive architecture workshops, effectively articulating complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and deployment strategies to technical teams and client advisors. OpenShift Architect (On-Prem Infrastructure & GitOps), £650 per day inside IR35 6 months initially, Remote Working