OpenShift Architect

OpenShift Architect

Location: Redwood CA (Hybrid)

Job Description:

The role focuses on designing and guiding implementations of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Platform and migrating VMware Virtual Machines to Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and Design:
• Develop architectural design for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Platform.
• Implementation:
• Deploy and configure OpenShift Virtualization Platform.
• Propose and implement best practices in OCP virtualization platform.
• Address infrastructure concerns: networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, high availability.
• Customer Engagement:
• Conduct discovery, analysis, and design workshops.
• Guide customers through pilot and production deployments.
• Automation & Integration:
• Use tools like Ansible automation.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines within OpenShift.
• Knowledge Sharing:
• Create reusable methodologies and tools to scale services.
• Contribute best practices and lessons learned to internal communities.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Technical Expertise:
• Strong knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Virtualization, RHEL, VMware Virtualization and Ansible.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and Linux systems.
• Familiarity with Dell and HPE Enterprise Servers and Storage Systems.
• Experience on migrating workloads from VMware to OpenShift using Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV)
• Experience:
• Good exposure and experience in solution or enterprise architecture roles.
• Good understanding and experience in VMware vSphere hypervisor.
• Good Experience in Server migrations using multiple technologies.
• Certifications:
• Red Hat certifications on OpenShift and Ansible are a plus.
• Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams