Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator

Leidos

Hybrid Actively hiring Posted this week
Washington DC Posted 5 days ago $92,300–$166,850 / year
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The Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator role within the SEC ISS contract and SEC OIT infrastructure mission focuses on leading enterprise virtualization operations using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This position involves designing, administering, and optimizing the platform to ensure secure, resilient, and high-performing VM services while supporting 24x7x365 operational readiness. Key responsibilities include deploying and maintaining KubeVirt components, managing full VM lifecycle operations, configuring networking and storage, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery readiness. The role also entails troubleshooting complex issues across the OpenShift cluster layer and VM guest layer, coordinating incident resolution with cross-functional teams, and leading technical teams in migration-wave execution and steady-state operations. Required qualifications include Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization or equivalent VMware certification, extensive experience with server virtualization technologies, and hands-on expertise with OpenShift Container Platform administration. Preferred skills encompass executing migrations using the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization, ITIL 4 Foundation certification, and supporting federal civilian agency infrastructure under formal SLA models.

Skills

OpenShift Kubernetes VMware Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux RHEL oc_kubectl Operators_CRDs_RBAC Prometheus Grafana Multus OVN_Kubernetes NetworkAttachmentDefinitions OpenShift_Data_Foundation_Ceph CSI_drivers DataVolumes GitOps_Argo_CD_OpenShift_GitOps FedRAMP FISMA NIST_SP_800_53 CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Lead administrative and design activities for OpenShift Virtualization deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain KubeVirt components, CDI, and associated cluster services in OpenShift Virtualization.
  • Manage full VM lifecycle operations including provisioning, live migration, cloning, snapshots, patching, and decommissioning.
  • Ensure platform high availability, node-failure resilience, disaster recovery readiness, and performance tuning across virtualized workloads.
  • Provide subject matter expertise troubleshooting complex issues across the full stack in OpenShift Virtualization.

What we're looking for

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization (EX316) or equivalent.
  • 9-12 years of experience with server virtualization and enterprise environments.
  • Hands-on experience with OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes-native virtualization.
  • Proven leadership in technical teams supporting system operations.
  • Expertise in deploying, configuring, and maintaining OpenShift Virtualization components.
  • Experience managing workloads, projects, and administrative functions for virtualization.

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