Senior OpenShift Virtualization Lead - Hybrid DC

Apex Systems

Washington (District of Columbia)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator in Washington, DC, a hybrid role requiring on-site support and DoD clearance eligibility. You will lead enterprise virtualization operations, overseeing OpenShift Virtualization design, deployment, and lifecycle management, including the VMware-to-OpenShift migration waves.

The role demands 9–12 years in virtualization, strong leadership, Deep OpenShift/KubeVirt expertise, and a solid background in RHEL.

Qualifications

This position requires a Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, or Engineering.
9-12 years of enterprise virtualization experience with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt.
Ability to lead technical teams and manage virtualization workloads.
Hands-on experience with OpenShift Container Platform and RHEL.
Experience deploying OpenShift Virtualization components and operators.
Senior troubleshooting across OpenShift and VM guest layers.
Incident coordination in a 24x7 enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

Lead design and administration of OpenShift Virtualization on OCP.
Deploy and maintain OpenShift Virtualization operator, KubeVirt, CDI, and services.
Manage full VM lifecycle—provisioning, live migration, cloning, snapshots, patching, decommissioning.
Configure VM networking and storage for performance and availability.
Troubleshoot across stack; monitor health and capacity using OpenShift tools.
Coordinate 24x7 operations and migration waves from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization.
Enforce secure configuration and patch compliance; apply GitOps patterns.