OpenShift & Hyper-V Infrastructure Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an engineer to design, deploy, and support virtualization and container platforms in the United Kingdom. You will manage OpenShift/Hyper‑V environments, automate operations, and migrate workloads to modern container platforms.

The role involves building clusters, automating provisioning, and implementing GitOps pipelines while maintaining platform health and enforcing security controls.

Qualifications

• Experience with OpenShift or Hyper-V, Windows Server, Failover Clustering, and SCVMM.
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Experience with Ansible, Git, and CI/CD tools.
• Solid grasp of networking (DNS, VLANs, load balancing) and storage (CSI, ODF/Ceph).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain OpenShift/Hyper‑V clusters, including live migration, replication, and capacity planning.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell.
• Build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD).
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, networking, and storage issues.
• Apply security and access controls (RBAC, SCC, patching).
• Plan and execute VMware‑to‑OpenShift/Hyper V migrations.
• Document processes and support on‑call rotations.

Tools

OpenShift

Hyper-V

Windows Server

Failover Clustering

SCVMM

Linux (RHEL)

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Git

CI/CD tools

Jenkins

Tekton

ArgoCD

Networking (DNS, VLANs, load balancing)

Storage (CSI, ODF/Ceph)

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an engineer to design, deploy, and support virtualization and container platforms in the United Kingdom. You will manage OpenShift/Hyper‑V environments, automate operations, and migrate workloads to modern container platforms.

The role involves building clusters, automating provisioning, and implementing GitOps pipelines while maintaining platform health and enforcing security controls.