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Hays

Cloud/Platform Architect

Hybrid

Toronto, Canada

Freelance

13-01-2026

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Ansible Networking Architecture OpenShift Terraform

Job Specifications

• Platform Architecture & Design

Architect and govern enterprise-grade OpenShift platforms across on-prem and cloud environments, defining standards for cluster topology, networking (ingress/egress), security, scalability, and multi-cluster strategies.

• Cloud-Native & GitOps Enablement

Design and standardize GitOps-based delivery models using ArgoCD, enabling consistent, automated application and platform lifecycle management across environments.

• Multi-Cluster & Hybrid Infrastructure Strategy

Define and implement multi-cluster management and governance using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM), ensuring workload portability, policy enforcement, and operational consistency.

• Security, Reliability & Resilience Architecture

Establish platform-wide security and reliability patterns, including IAM integration (LDAP), TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, high availability, disaster recovery, and compliance-aligned workload isolation.

• Observability, Automation & SRE Alignment

Design observability frameworks (metrics, logging, alerting), SLI/SLO models, and automation using Terraform and Ansible to enable self-healing platforms, zero-touch operations, and alignment with SRE best practices.

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