OpenShift Virtualization & Linux Platform Team Lead

Hitachi Vantara; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to lead the architecture, deployment, and operation of enterprise OpenShift Virtualization and Linux platforms in production. You will own platform reliability, security, automation, patching, monitoring, recovery, and lifecycle management across OpenShift, RHEL, Red Hat Satellite, Ansible, NFS, and virtual machines.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate with cross-functional teams, design standards for cluster architecture, VM

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Equivalent practical experience recognized.
• 8+ years in IT infrastructure with 4+ years in senior Linux/virtualization roles.
• Proven expertise with Red Hat OpenShift including OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).
• Strong Linux administration skills across RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, deployment, and operation of OpenShift and Linux platforms.
• Own platform reliability, security, automation, patching, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, security, app, database, and vendor teams.
• Design, deploy, administer, and support OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualization in production.
• Plan upgrades, health checks, capacity planning, and documentation updates.
• Lead incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across OpenShift, Linux, apps, and infra services.
• Mentor engineers and communicate risks, options, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

OpenShift

OpenShift Virtualization

Linux administration

Docker & Kubernetes

Ansible

Python

Bash

CI/CD & DevOps

Networking & storage

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

OpenShift Container Platform

OpenShift Virtualization

Kubernetes

Docker

Red Hat Satellite

Ansible Automation Platform

Job description

The Role

Lead the architecture, deployment, and operation of enterprise OpenShift Virtualization and Linux platforms. This hands‑on role owns platform reliability, security, automation, patching, monitoring, recovery, and lifecycle management across OpenShift, RHEL, Red Hat Satellite, Ansible, NFS, and virtual machines. The position also leads complex troubleshooting, supports critical workloads, mentors engineers, and coordinates with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, database, and vendor teams.

Design, deploy, administer, and support OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualization in production.

• Define standards for cluster architecture, virtualization worker nodes, VM placement, capacity, security, availability, and lifecycle management.
• Manage VM provisioning, templates, images, DataVolumes, persistent storage, snapshots, cloning, live migration, backup, recovery, and maintenance.
• Plan platform upgrades; perform health, compatibility, capacity, and post-change validation; maintain architecture and operating documentation.
• Provide expert‑level RHEL administration and troubleshooting across system services, boot, kernel, networking, storage, filesystems, LVM, logging, SELinux, certificates, and performance.
• Own Red Hat Satellite for content, subscriptions, host lifecycle, provisioning, patching, compliance, and reporting.
• Plan and execute OS patching, lifecycle upgrades, hardening, and vulnerability remediation for on‑premises and AWS‑hosted Linux VMs.
• Design and maintain Ansible Automation Platform playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, patching, validation, compliance, and reporting.
• Support production Linux VMs and business‑critical applications, including Oracle E‑Business Suite (EBS), in partnership with application and database teams.
• Lead complex incident troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis across OpenShift, Linux, applications, and dependent infrastructure services.
• Remain hands‑on while leading design reviews, operational‑readiness reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and major incident resolution.
• Mentor engineers and communicate technical risks, dependencies, options, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with application, database, cloud, security, network, storage, backup, identity, datacenter, and vendor teams.

What you'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 4 years in a senior technical role focused on Linux and/or virtualization.
• Proven expertise with Red Hat OpenShift, including OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).
• Strong proficiency in Linux operating systems (e.g., RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) and system administration.
• Extensive experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing) and storage solutions in a cloud‑native environment.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting (e.g., Ansible, Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.

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