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
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

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

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

OpenShift VirtualizationKubeVirtKVMLinux virtualizationAnsibleCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codelive migrationCPU pinningNUMA

Soft Skills

problem solvingmentoringleadership