Senior OpenShift Virtualization Consultant (CNV/KubeVirt)

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

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