IT & Software

Cloud Solution Architect, OpenShift

Accenture

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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Overview

As a Cloud Solution Architect at Manager level, you drive and shape complex cloud and OpenShift transformations for large-scale enterprises. You will set technical direction, partner with clients and ecosystems, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms. You’ll tackle modernization, performance, and governance across multi-cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on OpenShift and containerization. This role offers high-impact work at the intersection of technology, business outcomes, and regulatory considerations.

Responsibilities
  • Lead client conversations to translate business goals into technical requirements and modernization roadmaps across cloud, containers, and legacy estates
  • Define OpenShift platform standards and multi-cluster governance, including GitOps, Policy-as-Code, and platform lifecycle management
  • Champion performance, resilience, security, and observability across cloud and OpenShift platforms, including disaster recovery and SRE/AIOps
  • Mentor and manage teams of architects and engineers, providing coaching, governance, and career development
  • Drive strategic modernization and operating model design leveraging OpenShift and related tooling with partner ecosystem
Key requirements
  • Strategic Cloud Architecture with ability to link technical decisions to business outcomes (cost, resilience, speed to market)
  • Advisory & Technical Leadership: communicate complex concepts to stakeholders and manage senior client relationships
  • OpenShift Platform Architecture: hands-on design/operation of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes at scale in enterprise/regulatory settings
  • OpenShift GitOps & Multi-Cluster Management: experience with ACM, Argo CD, GitOps workflows
  • OpenShift Virtualization & Modernization: knowledge of OpenShift Virtualization and KubeVirt, VM lifecycle
  • OpenShift & Kubernetes Networking: OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes networking concepts, Multus, secondary networks
  • Segmentation, Multi-Tenancy & Zero Trust: namespace isolation, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust patterns
  • CNI & Software-Defined Networking: OVN-Kubernetes, Cilium, Calico, or UDN/CUDN
  • Architecture Delivery: ability to produce HLDs/LLDs, ADRs, reference architectures with stakeholder management
  • Agentic AI Curiosity: interest in applying intelligent automation to platform engineering
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management
  • Leadership and coaching abilities
  • Strategic thinking and business acumen
  • OpenShift and Kubernetes in enterprise environments
  • GitOps tooling (Argo CD, OpenShift GitOps, ACM)
  • OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management

Reference: WJ-747_31196386 · Posted 01 Nov 2026, 12:12 PM

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