Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer — Remote

Ironbow; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Company-provided equipment

Job summary

Iron Bow Technologies is leading one of the largest OpenShift Virtualization migrations in the federal space, designing, deploying, and operating a multi-tier Red Hat OpenShift environment while migrating thousands of virtual machines from VMware ESXi to OpenShift Virtualization across on-prem infrastructure.

The role combines platform engineering, virtualization, and automation in a highly regulated environment, with responsibilities spanning migration, security, and collaboration across

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and administering Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise environments.
• Strong VMware ESXi/vSphere administration experience, including networking and virtualization infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience leading or supporting enterprise-scale virtual machine migrations.
• Experience with MTV, OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt), or similar migration technologies.
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation using Ansible, Git, GitOps, and container registries such as Quay.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support Red Hat OpenShift clusters across a hub-and-spoke architecture.
• Lead large-scale migrations of Windows and RHEL virtual machines from VMware ESXi v7/v8 to OpenShift Virtualization using MTV.
• Translate VMware networking, resource pools, folders, tags, and VM configurations into OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes equivalents.
• Troubleshoot migration issues, perform rollback procedures when necessary, and support migration cutovers during scheduled maintenance windows.
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation and deployment pipelines using Ansible, Git, Quay, and GitOps methodologies.

Skills

Strong communication

Agile teamwork

Data analysis

Tools

OpenShift

VMware ESXi/vSphere

MTV

OpenShift Virtualization

Ansible

Git

Quay

GitOps

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk

Dynatrace

Splunk

NetApp Trident

Job description

Iron Bow Technologies is leading one of the largest OpenShift Virtualization migrations in the federal space, designing, deploying, and operating a multi-tier Red Hat OpenShift environment while migrating thousands of virtual machines from VMware ESXi to OpenShift Virtualization across on-prem infrastructure.

The role combines platform engineering, virtualization, and automation in a highly regulated environment, with responsibilities spanning migration, security, and collaboration across