OpenShift & KVM Administrator (Lead Administrator L1)

Secure Minds; Pune District, Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Secure Minds is seeking a Lead Administrator to manage KVM-based virtualization and OpenShift clusters across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. The role covers provisioning, monitoring, upgrades, and patching, with collaboration across development, DevOps, and operations teams on containerized workloads.

Must-have skills include OpenShift Virtualization, Kubernetes, Linux networking, and Shell scripting.

Qualifications

• Must-have OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes expertise.
• Strong Linux, networking, and shell scripting fundamentals.
• Experience with KVM administration and OpenShift cluster management.

Responsibilities

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

KVM

Linux

Networking

Shell scripting

OpenShift Admin

Job description

We're looking for a Lead Administrator (L1) to manage and optimize KVM-based virtualization environments and administer OpenShift clusters across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments — covering provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades and patching.

The role also covers implementing monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack), analysing system performance for resource and cost optimization, and close collaboration with development, DevOps and operations teams on containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.

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Must-have skills

• OpenShift Virtualization & Kubernetes — hands-on deployment, administration, troubleshooting (Must-Have)
• Distributed systems fundamentals — failure domains, resiliency, HA, scalability (Must-Have)
• Linux & Networking — strong fundamentals, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing (Must-Have)
• KVM Administration — provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance & security of virtualized infrastructure
• OpenShift Administration — cluster deployment/configuration, networking, storage, security, upgrades & patching
• Containerization — Docker, Kubernetes
• Linux system administration & shell scripting