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 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
• 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 with scripting (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+ years of 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

 

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to caste, colour, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, HIV status, or any other status protected by law. Candidates with disabilities who require accommodations during the recruitment process are encouraged to contact our Talent Acquisition team to place a request.