Role: Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator
Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months, with potential for FTE conversion
We are looking for a Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator to manage and support enterprise virtualization environments using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt.
What you’ll do:
- Administer and support Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization environments.
- Manage virtual machines, including provisioning, migration, cloning, snapshots, patching, and decommissioning.
- Support VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migrations.
- Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, VM, networking, and storage issues.
- Work with RHEL, Kubernetes, Operators, CRDs, RBAC, and OpenShift tools such as oc/kubectl.
- Monitor system performance, capacity, availability, and incidents.
- Work with networking and storage technologies such as Multus, OVN-Kubernetes, Ceph, and OpenShift Data Foundation.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and runbooks.
- Support security, patching, change management, and compliance requirements.
- Provide technical leadership and coordinate with infrastructure and operations teams.
Required Skills:
- 9+ years of enterprise virtualization/system administration experience.
- Hands-on experience with OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt, or similar Kubernetes-native virtualization.
- Strong Red Hat OpenShift administration experience.
- Strong RHEL/Linux administration experience.
- VMware/vSphere experience.
- Experience with VM migration and virtualization technologies.
- Experience with oc/kubectl, Operators, CRDs, and RBAC.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- EX316 or equivalent certification preferred. VCP-DCV may also be considered.
Preferred:
- Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV/Forklift)
- RHCE
- CKA
- Argo CD / OpenShift GitOps
- Ansible
- Ceph / OpenShift Data Foundation
- ITIL
- Federal/government infrastructure experience
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