Senior/Principal OpenShift Virtualization Consultant

As a proactive problem-solver with strong communication skills, you will lead the management and migration of workloads from VMware to a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization platform in a collaborative team environment. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Platform Management:** Maintain, automate, monitor, and handle Day 2 Ops for the 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. - **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, and storage. - **Security & Compliance:** Implement and maintain security best practices including hardening, 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 mentorship. **Mandatory Qualifications:** - Excellent communication skills for collaboration and knowledge sharing. - 6+ years of infrastructure engineering experience for Senior level and 8+ years for Principal level. - 2+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in production. - Deep expertise in OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes core concepts. - Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible and Terraform. - Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals and hands-on experience with Linux operating systems. - Solid knowledge of container technology. **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. - Red Hat certifications. The initial contract is for 6 months with a possibility of extension based on performance and project needs, offering competitive market rates commensurate with experience and expertise.,