Openshift Linux Engineer

Cloud Kinetics Consulting Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Kinetics Consulting Pte Ltd is seeking an OpenShift Virtualization / KVM Platform Engineer to administer and optimize Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and KVM in customer production environments. You will focus on stability, lifecycle management, performance, security compliance, automation, and operational excellence.

Key duties include patching and upgrades, backup and restore, VM provisioning and migration, monitoring, vulnerability assessments, CIS hardening, and building automation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OpenShift Virtualization and KVM in production
• 4+ years of relevant infrastructure experience
• Experience in enterprise or managed services environments

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain OpenShift Virtualization and KVM platforms
• Perform proactive health checks, monitoring, and capacity management
• Execute patching, upgrades and lifecycle maintenance
• Manage OpenShift backup and restore operations
• Provision, migrate, optimize and decommission virtual machines
• Monitor and tune VM performance
• Support workload placement and resource utilization management
• Troubleshoot virtualization-related issues and bottlenecks

Skills

OpenShift Virtualization

KVM

RHEL

Patching & Upgrades

VM provisioning

Migration

Performance tuning

Backup & Recovery

Ansible Automation

CIS Hardening

Job description

The OpenShift Virtualization / KVM Platform Engineer is responsible for the administration, maintenance, and support of the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and KVM infrastructure supporting customer production environments. The role focuses on platform stability, lifecycle management, performance optimization, security compliance, automation, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and KVM platforms.
• Perform proactive platform health checks, monitoring, and capacity management.
• Execute platform patching, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance activities.
• Manage OpenShift backup and restore operations.
• Provision, migrate, optimize, and decommission virtual machines.
• Monitor and tune virtual machine performance.
• Support workload placement and resource utilization management.
• Troubleshoot virtualization-related issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Administer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
• Perform Linux patching, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Manage platform-level incidents, changes, problem records, and root cause analyses.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediation activities.
• Implement CIS hardening standards and security best practices.
• Ensure compliance with operational and security requirements.
• Develop and maintain automation s using Ansible.
• Drive operational efficiency through automation and process improvements.

Primary Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat KVM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Patching and upgrading of virtualization platforms, VM provisioning, migration, and performance tuning
• OpenShift backup and recovery, Ansible Automation, CIS Hardening

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• 4+ years of relevant infrastructure and platform administration experience.
• Hands-on experience supporting OpenShift Virtualization and/or KVM environments in production.
• Experience working within enterprise or managed services environments.