Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator

Location: Remote

Job Type: Contract

Duration: 6 months, with potential for FTE conversion

What you’ll do: Administer and support Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization environments. Manage virtual machines, including provisioning, migration, cloning, snapshots, patching, and decommissioning. Support VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migrations. Troubleshoot OpenShift, Kubernetes, VM, networking, and storage issues. Work with RHEL, Kubernetes, Operators, CRDs, RBAC, and OpenShift tools such as oc/kubectl. Monitor system performance, capacity, availability, and incidents. Work with networking and storage technologies such as Multus, OVN-Kubernetes, Ceph, and OpenShift Data Foundation. Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and runbooks. Support security, patching, change management, and compliance requirements. Provide technical leadership and coordinate with infrastructure and operations teams.

Required Skills: 9+ years of enterprise virtualization/system administration experience. Hands-on experience with OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt, or similar Kubernetes-native virtualization. Strong Red Hat OpenShift administration experience. Strong RHEL/Linux administration experience. VMware/vSphere experience. Experience with VM migration and virtualization technologies. Experience with oc/kubectl, Operators, CRDs, and RBAC.Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills. Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. U.S. Citizenship required. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. EX316 or equivalent certification preferred. VCP-DCV may also be considered.

Preferred: Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV/Forklift)RHCECKAArgo CD / OpenShift GitOpsAnsibleCeph / OpenShift Data FoundationITILFederal/government infrastructure experience