Openshift Engineer
Must-have:DevOpsSecurity
The OpenShift Virtualization / KVM Platform Engineer is responsible for the administration, maintenance, and support of the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and KVM infrastructure supporting customer production environments. The role focuses on platform stability, lifecycle management, performance optimization, security compliance, automation, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and KVM platforms.
- Perform proactive platform health checks, monitoring, and capacity management.
- Execute platform patching, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance activities.
- Manage OpenShift backup and restore operations.
- Provision, migrate, optimize, and decommission virtual machines.
- Monitor and tune virtual machine performance.
- Support workload placement and resource utilization management.
- Troubleshoot virtualization-related issues and performance bottlenecks.
- Administer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
- Perform Linux patching, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Manage platform-level incidents, changes, problem records, and root cause analyses.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediation activities.
- Implement CIS hardening standards and security best practices.
- Ensure compliance with operational and security requirements.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts using Ansible.
- Drive operational efficiency through automation and process improvements.
Required Skills & Experience
Primary Skills
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat KVM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Patching and upgrading of virtualization platforms, VM provisioning, migration, and performance tuning
- OpenShift backup and recovery, Ansible Automation, CIS Hardening
Preferred Qualifications & Experience
- 4+ years of relevant infrastructure and platform administration experience.
- Hands-on experience supporting OpenShift Virtualization and/or KVM environments in production.
- Experience working within enterprise or managed services environments.