Red Hat Engineer / Architect – Technology Consulting – Cloud – Amman – Jordan

Job Summary

This role involves designing, building, operating, and enhancing Red Hat-based platforms in on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud settings. It is a hands-on, client-facing position based in Amman that combines platform engineering, architecture, automation, reliability, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across on-premises data centers and public cloud, including multi-cluster and hybrid setups.
• Design and manage RHEL standard operating environments with hardened images, patching baselines, and lifecycle management using Red Hat Satellite.
• Create infrastructure automation using Ansible Automation Platform and GitOps tools like Argo CD and OpenShift GitOps.
• Design platform services such as ingress, service mesh, API gateway integration, container registries, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle.
• Define hybrid connectivity, workload placement, and business continuity and disaster recovery strategies aligned with client needs.
• Support production platform operations including cluster upgrades, capacity management, performance tuning, and incident/problem management.
• Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift monitoring and logging, integrating with enterprise SIEM and ITSM tools.
• Develop operational runbooks, automated remediation, and transition materials for client operations teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or solution architecture with hands-on Red Hat OpenShift delivery and operations.
• Strong knowledge of RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Satellite.
• Experience supporting hybrid environments combining on-premises infrastructure and at least one public cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Solid Kubernetes knowledge including networking, storage, role-based access control, and admission control.
• Experience applying security, risk, audit, or compliance controls in enterprise or regulated environments.
• Understanding of API and microservices security patterns including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and mTLS.
• Automation and scripting skills using Ansible, Bash, or Python; Terraform knowledge is advantageous.
• Strong communication, structured problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience; Red Hat certifications are strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Arabic is advantageous.

Nice to haves

• Experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security, OpenShift Service Mesh, Quay, or OpenShift Virtualization.
• Knowledge of private cloud technologies such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
• Experience with API management platforms on OpenShift like 3scale, Apigee, Kong, or Azure API Management.
• Cloud or architecture certifications including Azure, AWS, Red Hat, or TOGAF.

What the company offers

• Regional exposure through complex cloud and platform transformation projects across the Middle East.
• Development opportunities in Red Hat engineering, hybrid cloud architecture, automation, reliability, and cloud governance.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, data, integration, and risk.
• Opportunities to contribute to reusable assets, delivery methods, and growth of EY cloud capabilities.

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