Senior OpenShift Virtualization Leader & Migration

Via Logic LLC; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in the Washington, DC area is seeking a Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator to lead enterprise virtualization operations on OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) with MTV-based migration support.

You will design, administer, and optimize OpenShift Virtualization to deliver secure, resilient VM services and coordinate with the EOC and adjacent teams in a 24x7x365 environment.

Qualifications

• Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements.
• Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher).
• Education: Bachelors in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering).
• Required Certification: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization (EX316) or equivalent; VCP-DCV accepted with commitment to EX316 post-hire.
• Experience: 9-12 years supporting server virtualization in enterprise environments; OpenShift Virtualization/KubeVirt experience.
• Hands-on experience administering OpenShift Container Platform (oc/kubectl, RBAC).
• Technical Skills: OpenShift Virtualization leadership; MV/T MT migration experience; incident coordination; documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead administrative and design activities for OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) on OpenShift Container Platform.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain OpenShift Virtualization operator, KubeVirt, CDI, and cluster services.
• Manage VM lifecycle operations: provisioning, live migration, cloning, snapshots, patching, decommissioning.
• Configure VM networking and storage to meet performance and availability requirements.
• Ensure high availability, DR readiness, and performance tuning across cluster nodes and workloads.
• Provide SME troubleshooting across OpenShift cluster and VM guest layers.
• Monitor health with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana; coordinate incident triage and restoration.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge articles for monitoring and operations.
• Lead teams in migration waves and steady-state operations; manage workloads and priorities.

Skills

OpenShift Virtualization

KubeVirt

Team leadership

Incident management

24x7 operations

GitOps automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

oc/kubectl

Argo CD

Ansible Automation Platform

Kubernetes

Ceph / ODF

Job description

Leidos in the Washington, DC area is seeking a Senior OpenShift Virtualization Administrator to lead enterprise virtualization operations on OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) with MTV-based migration support.

You will design, administer, and optimize OpenShift Virtualization to deliver secure, resilient VM services and coordinate with the EOC and adjacent teams in a 24x7x365 environment.