Senior Infrastructure Engineer (OpenShift Virtualization)
About The Position
This role focuses on operating and supporting OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) platforms that host critical virtual machine workloads. The engineer will be responsible for day-2 platform operations, including upgrades, patching, capacity management, and incident response. They will also solve complex production issues across OpenShift Virtualization/KubeVirt, KVM and Linux virtualization subsystems, OpenShift control plane and node components, and networking and storage integrations. The position involves performing VM lifecycle operations such as provisioning, live migration, snapshots, backups, and recovery. A key aspect of the role is to improve platform stability and reliability through automation, monitoring, and operational tooling, utilizing Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices. The engineer will lead root-cause analysis, drive corrective and preventative actions, and partner with SRE, networking, storage, and security teams. Creating and maintaining runbooks, operational documentation, and on-call playbooks, as well as mentoring other engineers, are also important responsibilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or virtualization engineering
- 4+ years of hands-on experience operating Red Hat OpenShift in production environments
- Strong, practical experience running OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) for VM workloads
- Deep understanding of KVM-based virtualization, including live migration, CPU pinning, NUMA, and hugepages
- Experience operating VM storage using CSI-backed persistent volumes
- Strong problem solving skills across Linux, virtualization, networking, storage and OpenShift
- Proven track record of automating repetitive tasks, maintenance activities or migrations using Ansible, Salt, Python and similar technologies
- Experience supporting highly available platforms with on-call responsibilities
Nice To Haves
- Experience migrating workloads from VMware or traditional hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization
- Familiarity with OpenShift networking (OVN-Kubernetes, Multus, SR-IOV)
- Experience with VM backup, restore, and disaster recovery solutions
- Red Hat certifications (RHCE, OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization)
- Experience operating large-scale enterprise VM platforms
Responsibilities
- Operate and support OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) platforms hosting critical virtual machine workloads
- Own day-2 platform operations, including upgrades, patching, capacity management, and incident response
- Solve complex production issues across OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt, KVM and Linux virtualization subsystems, OpenShift control plane and node components, and Networking and storage integrations
- Perform VM lifecycle operations including provisioning, live migration, snapshots, backups, and recovery
- Improve platform stability and reliability through automation, monitoring, and operational tooling
- Build and maintain automation using Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Lead root-cause analysis and drive corrective and preventative actions
- Partner with SRE, networking, storage, and security teams during incidents and operational improvements
- Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and on-call playbooks
- Mentor other engineers and raise the operational maturity of the infrastructure
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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