Remote Senior OpenShift Virtualization Lead (CNV/KubeVirt)

Leidos Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator to lead enterprise virtualization operations on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt) for the SEC ISS contract. You will design, administer, and optimize the platform to deliver secure, high‑performing VM services in a 24x7 environment.

Responsibilities include migration planning and execution from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization using MTV/Forklift, incident response, and coordination with EOC and adjacent teams while

Qualifications

• 9-12 years of experience supporting server virtualization in enterprise environments.
• Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) / KubeVirt or similar virtualization platforms.
• Experience leading technical teams and managing workloads for virtualization operations.
• Hands-on administration of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (oc/kubectl, Operators, CRDs, RBAC).
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.

Responsibilities

• Lead administrative and design activities for OpenShift Virtualization on OpenShift Container Platform.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain OpenShift Virtualization components and related cluster services.
• Manage full VM lifecycle operations on KubeVirt including provisioning, live migration, cloning, and snapshots.
• Configure VM networking and storage to meet performance and availability requirements.
• Ensure HA, disaster recovery readiness, and performance tuning across cluster nodes and virtualized workloads.

Skills

OpenShift Virtualization

KubeVirt

Team leadership

Incident response

RBAC administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

oc/kubectl

OpenShift Container Platform

MTV / Forklift

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator to lead enterprise virtualization operations on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt) for the SEC ISS contract. You will design, administer, and optimize the platform to deliver secure, high‑performing VM services in a 24x7 environment.

Responsibilities include migration planning and execution from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization using MTV/Forklift, incident response, and coordination with EOC and adjacent teams while