Senior/Principal OpenShift Virtualization Consultant

1 week ago

ahmedabad, India intive Full time

We are Looking for a proactive problem-solver with strong communication skills who thrives in a collaborative team environment to lead the management (Maintain, Support, Day 2 Ops) and migration of workloads from VMware to a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization platform.


We are looking for two tiers of expert consultants—Senior and Principal—to join our team for 6 months project.



Key Responsibilities:


  • Platform Management: Maintain, automate, monitor, and Day 2 Ops to our production-grade RedHat OpenShift Container Platform with the OpenShift Virtualization operator.
  • VM Migration: Lead and execute the migration of virtual servers from VMware vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization using tools like `virt-v2v` and CDI (Containerized Data Importer).
  • Performance & Optimization: Proactively monitor platform health, performance, and capacity. Perform tuning and optimization of nodes, storage, and networks for virtualized workloads.
  • Troubleshooting: Serve as the highest level of escalation for diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt, CNI (e.g., OVNKubernetes), and storage (CSI).
  • Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices for the platform, including hardening, role-based access control (RBAC), and network policies.
  • Disaster Recovery: Design and implement robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for both containerized and virtualized workloads.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain automation scripts using Ansible, Terraform, or Golang to manage the platform efficiently.


(Principal Level): Architect the platform strategy, define migration roadmaps, and provide technical leadership and mentor for senior engineers and other team members.


Mandatory Qualifications:


  • Excellent communication skills for collaboration and knowledge sharing in must.
  • 6+ (Senior) or 8+ (Principal) years of infrastructure engineering experience.
  • Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in production.
  • Deep expertise in OpenShift Container Platform (OCP 4.x+) and Kubernetes core concepts.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform
  • Must be experienced in Day 2 Operations and Troubleshooting.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals: Pods, Deployments, Stateful Sets, Services, Networking, Storage, etc.
  • Hands-on experience with Linux operating systems (RHEL, CentOS) including system administration, kernel tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Solid knowledge of container technology (Docker, CRI-O).


Significant Advantage:


  • Expert-level VMware vSphere knowledge.
  • Direct experience migrating VMs from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization.
  • Scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go) and Red Hat certifications.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana).
  • Red Hat certifications (e.g., RHCE, CKA, CKAD, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization).


Contract Details: Initial 6-month full-time contract with a high likelihood of extension based on performance and project needs. Competitive market rates will be offered commensurate with experience and expertise.

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