Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engineer (Junior & Senior)

Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer

Role Overview

A Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer designs, implements, and optimizes virtualization solutions using Red Hat OpenShift and KubeVirt. This role combines deep Kubernetes expertise with traditional virtualization knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy virtualization solutions on OpenShift clusters.
• Lead migrations from legacy platforms like VMware vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization.
• Manage VM lifecycle (provisioning, scaling, backup, restore).
• Optimize performance, storage, and networking for VM workloads.
• Implement high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and security policies.
• Automate infrastructure using tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Troubleshoot complex cluster and virtualization issues.
• Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Hands-on with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt.
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems (RHEL preferred).
• Experience with storage (Ceph, ODF) and networking (OVN, Multus).
• Experience with storage systems and protocols (NAS, SAN, NFS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Scripting (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience with different hypervisors technologies (VMware,Nutanix,KVM).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in virtualization / Containerization.
• Certifications like CKA / Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift are a plus.

Bonus points

• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and ELK Stack.
• Experience with Redhat ACM , ACS , ODF, OpenShift virtualization.

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Junior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer

Role Overview

A Junior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer supports the deployment and maintenance of virtualization workloads on OpenShift .

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in deploying and managing VMs on OpenShift.
• Monitor cluster health and VM performance.
• Perform basic troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Support migration tasks and testing.
• Help automate routine tasks using scripts.
• Document procedures and configurations.

Required Skills

• Basic understanding of Kubernetes and containers.
• Familiarity with Linux administration.
• Awareness of virtualization concepts (VMs, hypervisors).
• Basic networking and storage knowledge.
• Willingness to learn tools like KubeVirt and OpenShift.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or final-year student) in IT/Computer Science.
• 0–2 years of relevant experience (internships count).
• Basic certifications (RHCSA, CKA) are a plus.