Lead OpenShift Architect / Engineer
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Summary
Remote lead role architecting and delivering VMware-to-OpenShift migrations: designs and installs bare-metal OpenShift 4.x clusters, deploys OpenShift Virtualization, defines day-2 operations, and produces runbooks, cutover and rollback plans handed over to the client team.
This is a remote position.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery and produce the target architecture, migration plan, and validation criteria
- Design and install bare-metal OpenShift clusters
- Deploy OpenShift Virtualization and migrate VMs from VMware
- Define day-2 operations: upgrades, monitoring, backup and restore
- Coordinate storage and network integration with the respective engineers
- Deliver a proof of concept before production migration waves
- Produce runbooks, cutover and rollback plans, and hand over to the client team
Requirements
Requirements
- 3+ years OpenShift 4.x in production, including self-hosted bare-metal deployments
- Completed at least one VMware to OpenShift Virtualization migration
- Strong Kubernetes fundamentals: networking, RBAC, security, operators
- Experience with enterprise block storage on OpenShift
- Experience with phased migrations on live production environments
- Red Hat OpenShift certification or verifiable project references
- Fluent English
Preferred
- Multi-cluster management (ACM)
- F5, IBM storage, or Cisco networking exposure
- Migration from legacy Kubernetes or OpenShift 3