Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title

Job Overview: Pay Range $55hr - $60hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 8+ years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years supporting VMware vSphere and ESXi environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift administration and engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migration initiatives.
• Experience migrating production workloads involving Windows Server, Linux platforms, Tier-1 business applications, and enterprise databases.
• Expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Platform and OpenShift Virtualization.
• Proficiency with Operators and Operator Lifecycle Management.
• Deep knowledge of VMware ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, and VM lifecycle management.
• Experience with Datastore and networking architecture, vMotion, and migration planning.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV/Forklift).
• Experience with workload discovery, assessment, cutover, and rollback procedures.
• Proficiency in Ansible, Terraform, Git, and GitOps frameworks.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of CSI storage integrations, SAN/NAS technologies, and enterprise storage platforms.
• Understanding of software-defined networking, VLANs, load balancing, DNS, and identity integration.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available OpenShift Virtualization clusters.
• Design scalable virtualization platforms supporting both virtual machine and container workloads.
• Configure and optimize storage, networking, security, monitoring, and backup solutions within OpenShift environments.
• Develop standards, reference architectures, operational procedures, and platform governance models.
• Lead migrations from VMware ESXi/vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization.
• Assess existing VMware environments and create migration roadmaps.
• Define migration waves, dependency mapping, rollback plans, and validation procedures.
• Utilize Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV/Forklift) to automate workload migrations.
• Execute proof-of-concept, pilot, and production migration activities.
• Validate workload performance, functionality, availability, and disaster recovery after migration.
• Develop automation using Ansible Automation Platform, GitOps methodologies, and Terraform.
• Automate cluster deployment, lifecycle operations, VM provisioning, and configuration management.
• Engineer storage integrations using enterprise storage platforms and CSI-based solutions.
• Design migration procedures for VMDK-to-PVC conversion and storage class mapping.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity planning, and performance management practices.
• Support high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
• Develop operational runbooks and troubleshooting guides.
• Provide mentorship to infrastructure, virtualization, and platform engineering teams.
• Collaborate with application owners, security teams, storage engineers, and cloud platform teams.
• Present technical recommendations to stakeholders.

Nice to Have:

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• VMware VCP or VCAP certification.
• Experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell PowerFlex, or similar enterprise storage platforms.
• Experience supporting environments with 1,000+ virtual machines.
• Experience implementing hybrid cloud and platform modernization strategies.

Skills:

• VMware Migration.
• Platform Modernization.
• Red Hat OpenShift.
• KubeVirt.
• KVM.
• Ansible.
• Terraform.
• GitOps.
• MTV/Forklift.
• CSI Storage.
• Infrastructure as Code.

Qualification And Education:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker with strong architecture skills.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale infrastructure transformation programs.
• Ability to balance operational stability with modernization objectives.