Senior Consultant Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Kforce Inc; North Charleston (SC); Hybrid; USD 12,398,000 - 19,286,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a hybrid Senior Consultant with deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt) to design, migrate, and optimize virtual workloads within OpenShift for a large-scale enterprise deployment. The role requires onsite weekly initially, then alternating week onsite/remote.

You will lead architecture, implementation, migration, and operational runbooks, collaborating with infrastructure, platform, and application teams; travel is expected weekly early on, with a

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration.
• Strong experience with OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt).
• Experience supporting enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, KVM, or Red Hat Virtualization).
• Strong Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL.
• Experience planning and executing virtualization or platform modernization projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt) solutions.
• Assess and migrate VM workloads from traditional virtualization platforms into OpenShift.
• Deploy, configure, and support OpenShift clusters and virtualization services.
• Collaborate with customer teams to establish architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex compute, networking, storage, and platform issues.
• Create migration plans and operational runbooks.
• Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux admin

Virtualization

Tools

VMware vSphere

KVM

CNV/KubeVirt

Job description

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client that is seeking a hybrid Senior Consultant Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. The duration for this role is 900 hours in Charleston, SC. Overview: We are seeking a Senior Consultant with strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt) to support a large-scale enterprise virtualization initiative. This consultant will lead the design, implementation, migration, and optimization of virtualized workloads within OpenShift environments while partnering closely with infrastructure, platform, and application teams. Core Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt) solutions


• Assess and migrate virtual machine workloads from traditional virtualization platforms into OpenShift


• Deploy, configure, and support OpenShift clusters and virtualization services


• Collaborate with customer teams to establish architecture, operational standards, and best practices


• Troubleshoot complex issues involving compute, networking, storage, and platform performance


• Create technical documentation, migration plans, and operational runbooks


• Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer throughout the engagement

Requirements

• 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience


• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration


• Strong experience with OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt)


• Experience supporting enterprise virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, KVM, or Red Hat Virtualization


• Strong Linux administration experience, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)


• Experience planning and executing virtualization or platform modernization projects


• Understanding of networking, storage, and enterprise infrastructure architecture


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills


• Travel is required; Consultant should expect to be onsite weekly during the initial phase of the engagement, transitioning to an alternating week onsite/week remote schedule; Travel and expenses are billable

Preferred Qualifications

• Red Hat certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift certifications)


• Experience with Ansible Automation Platform


• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD


• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)


• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform


• Engagement Details

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.