Architect(Migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization)

NextGen | GTA: A Kelly Telecom Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGen | GTA: A Kelly Telecom Company seeks a senior hands-on virtualization architect/SME with proven VMware to OpenShift Virtualization migration in production. This role focuses on multi-site migrations, ACM, KubeVirt, and cutting-edge virtualization platforms, ensuring production readiness and thorough knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams.

You will own migration methodologies, runbooks, diagrams, and training to empower teams to support a migrated OpenShift-based

Qualifications

• Hands-on VMware to OpenShift Virtualization migration experience in production.
• Experience with MTV/Forklift Migration Toolkit for Virtualization.
• Strong KubeVirt administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Advanced Migration Management (ACM) experience.
• Experience with multi-site, multi-cluster migration programs.
• Experience executing production cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration support.
• Operational readiness to prepare engineering/ops teams to support migrated environment.
• Strong knowledge transfer and documentation experience (MOPs, diagrams, runbooks).

Responsibilities

• Lead VMware → OpenShift Virtualization migrations in production.
• Plan and execute cutovers, validations, and post-migration support.
• Coordinate multi-site/multi-cluster migration programs.
• Triage migration issues and provide troubleshooting guidance.
• Prepare ops teams and create runbooks and training materials.

Skills

VMware vSphere/ESXi

OpenShift Virtualization

KVM

QEMU

KubeVirt

ACM

Migration management

Multi-site migrations

Tools

MTV/Forklift

Job description

We are looking for a senior hands-on virtualization architect/SME who has actually migrated VMware workloads to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in production. This is not a general VMware, Kubernetes, or OpenShift administrator role.

• VMware → Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization migrations — direct hands-on migration experience is the #1 requirement.
• MTV / Forklift — Migration Toolkit for Virtualization experience.
• KubeVirt administration and troubleshooting.
• Advanced Migration Management (ACM) experience.
• Experience with multi-site / multi-cluster migration programs.
• Experience executing production cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration support.
• Operational readiness — preparing engineering/operations teams to support the migrated environment.
• Strong knowledge transfer/documentation experience, including MOPs, migration procedures, diagrams, runbooks, and training.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with:

Virtualization: VMware vSphere/ESXi, OpenShift Virtualization, KVM, QEMU, KubeVirt

OpenShift: OCP, OpenShift Virtualization, OpenShift Platform Plus, ACM, Multus CNI, OVN, vSwitch/networking

Storage: Ceph, LVM, persistent storage

Linux: RHEL, Linux administration and troubleshooting

Networking: OpenShift networking, DNS, PKI, Multus, OVN