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 administer Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments supporting enterprise and mission‑critical workloads.
Provision, configure, and manage virtual machines on OpenShift, including CPU, memory, storage, networking, and lifecycle operations (create, modify, migrate, decommission)
Administer and maintain OpenShift cluster components relevant to virtualization, including control plane, worker nodes, and virtualization operators.
Implement and manage high availability (HA), resiliency and DR for virtualized workloads, ensuring alignment with application SLAs.
Co-ordinate upgrades, patching, and maintenance of OpenShift clusters and virtualization components in accordance with change management processes.
Optimize cluster and VM performance, capacity utilization, and resource consumption (CPU, memory, storage, and network)
Troubleshoot complex issues related to VM startup failures, live migration, storage performance, networking, and cluster health.
Function as a senior technical escalation point for OpenShift Virtualization–related 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 maintain scripts and automation to support provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational tasks.
Migration & Integration
Support VM migrations from VMware or other hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization
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