Senior Systems Engineer

Role Summary

The Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer is responsible for the design administration and operational support of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments in enterprise mission-critical landscapes. This role is a senior-level position providing technical leadership for virtualized workloads running on OpenShift supporting day-to-day operations platform stability migrations and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

OpenShift Virtualization Administration & Operations

• Design deploy and administerRed Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments supporting enterprise and missioncritical workloads.
• Provision configure and managevirtual machines on OpenShift including CPU memory storage networking and lifecycle operations (create modify migrate decommission)
• Administer and maintainOpenShift cluster componentsrelevant to virtualization including control plane worker nodes and virtualization operators.
• Implement and managehigh availability (HA) resiliency and DR for virtualized workloads ensuring alignment with application SLAs.
• Co-ordinate upgrades patching and maintenanceof OpenShift clusters and virtualization components in accordance with change management processes.
• Optimizecluster and VM performance capacity utilization and resource consumption (CPU memory storage and network)
• Troubleshoot complex issues related toVM startup failures live migration storage performance networking and cluster health.
• Function as asenior technical escalation pointfor OpenShift Virtualizationrelated incidents and operational challenges. Help the team with knowledge sharing and mentoring the junior members

• Manage case escalation with Red Hat support for issue resolution.

Automation & Scripting

• Develop and maintainscripts and automationto support provisioning configuration monitoring and operational tasks.

Migration & Integration

• SupportVM migrationsfrom VMware or other hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization
• Assist in planning and executing virtualization modernization initiatives.
• Maintain coexistence and interoperability between OpenShift Virtualization and existing hypervisor platforms.

Security Monitoring & Compliance

• Implement and maintain platform security best practices in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support audit compliance and operational reporting requirements.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Work closely with platform cloud storage and network teams.
• Create and maintain operational documentation runbooks and standard operating procedures.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• Strong senior-level experience with OpenShift Virtualization
• Proven experience operating OpenShift clusters in enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience withscripting(e.g. Bash Python or equivalent)
• Deep understanding of virtualization concepts (compute storage networking HA DR)

Required Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization (RHCSOA)
• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator (RHCOA)

Desired / Nice-to-Have Skills

• VMware vSphere administration experience
• Experience with other hypervisors (e.g. Nutanix KVM etc.)
• Exposure to container-native storage and networking solutions
• Experience supporting hybrid or multi-platform virtualization environments.

Experience Level

• 8 yearsof infrastructure or virtualization experience with significant hands-on OpenShift exposure

Work Environment

• Enterprise managed services and client-facing environments
• Participation in on-call rotations and support outside standard business hours as required.
• Collaborative fast-paced and delivery-focused

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