Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer - Remote

Harman Walsh Government Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work opportunities

Job summary

Harman Walsh Government Solutions LLC (HWGS) is seeking a Sr. OpenShift Virtualization Engineer to lead a large federal migration from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization.

This is a hands-on role designing, deploying, and running production OpenShift clusters in a hub-and-spoke architecture, guiding cutovers, validation, and rollbacks while owning day-2 operations. You will build automation with Ansible and Git, integrate platform services, and mentor junior admins in a multi-year program

Qualifications

• 5+ years administering or engineering production Red Hat OpenShift (OpenShift Container Platform 4.x)
• Working command of core platform concepts: cluster health and troubleshooting, nodes and operators, upgrades, namespaces and RBAC, and storage fundamentals
• Ansible authoring experience. Walk through a specific playbook or role you wrote or modified
• Deep VMware vSphere/ESXi experience, including VM networking, storage, and resource management
• Hands-on VM migration experience (P2V, V2V, or VMware to OpenShift Virtualization)
• Experience with Git-based workflows and infrastructure as code

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support OpenShift clusters in a hub-and-spoke architecture
• Lead VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migrations, including planning, cutover, validation, and rollback
• Use MTV and translate VMware constructs into OpenShift/Kubernetes equivalents
• Troubleshoot cutovers and rollbacks during maintenance windows
• Own day-2 operations: cluster health, node maintenance, upgrades
• Manage namespaces, quotas, and RBAC; support PV/PVC/StorageClass
• Deploy and integrate platform services such as Dynatrace, NetApp Trident, Splunk, Quay, and Vault/CyberArk
• Build infrastructure as code with Ansible, Git, and GitOps tooling; write/maintain playbooks
• Integrate secrets management (HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk)
• Troubleshoot bare-metal hardware (Cisco UCS/Intersight, Dell iDRAC, HPE iLO)
• Apply STIG/CIS/SCAP/DISA compliance
• Document runbooks and mentor admins

Skills

OpenShift administration

Ansible authoring

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Git-based workflows

Infrastructure as code

Cluster health troubleshooting

Tools

Dynatrace

NetApp Trident

Splunk

Quay

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk

Cisco UCS

Dell iDRAC

HPE iLO

MTV

KubeVirt

Job description

Harman Walsh Government Solutions LLC (HWGS) is seeking a Sr. OpenShift Virtualization Engineer to lead a large federal migration from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization.

This is a hands-on role designing, deploying, and running production OpenShift clusters in a hub-and-spoke architecture, guiding cutovers, validation, and rollbacks while owning day-2 operations. You will build automation with Ansible and Git, integrate platform services, and mentor junior admins in a multi-year program