Senior Red Hat Consultant (OpenShift Virtualization / CNV)

VSO Inc.; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Health benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Learning & development

Job summary

VSO is seeking a Senior Red Hat Consultant to design, deploy and support an on-premises OpenShift Virtualization environment in a hybrid Charleston, SC setting. You'll manage VM workloads, integrate storage and networking, and implement robust authentication and RBAC with Okta.

The role requires 7–9 years of experience, hands-on OpenShift CNV/KubeVirt expertise, and willingness to travel weekly onsite during the initial months before a weekly rotation. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of professional IT experience.
• Hybrid in Charleston, SC with week-on/week-off onsite travel initially.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and support an on-premises OpenShift Virtualization environment.
• Configure core infrastructure and provision bare-metal hosts.
• Manage VM and container workloads, including migrating VMs from legacy hypervisors.
• Build and maintain networking architecture and storage integration.
• Set up authentication and RBAC.
• Provide ongoing lifecycle and operational support onsite with customer stakeholders.

Skills

OpenShift core infra

OpenShift Virtualization / CNV

Networking (OpenShift)

Storage integration

RBAC authentication

MTV (Migration Toolkit)

KubeVirt

Redfish & Virtual Media

On-prem OpenShift

Tools

GitOps

Helm

OpenShift Operator management

Okta integration

Hybrid Cloud Console

Job description

Senior Red Hat Consultant (OpenShift Virtualization / CNV)
Hybrid Remote Hybrid - Charleston, SC

Description

Are you looking to take the next steps in your career as a Senior Red Hat Consultant (OpenShift Virtualization / CNV)? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!

Virtual Service Operations is searching for a Senior Red Hat Consultant (OpenShift Virtualization / CNV) with expertise in OpenShift Virtualization to support a bare-metal, on-premises OpenShift Virtualization deployment. This is a hands-on, technically demanding engagement requiring strong command of OpenShift core infrastructure, virtualization, networking, and storage in an on-prem context.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and support an on-premises OpenShift Virtualization environment
• Configure core infrastructure and provision bare-metal hosts
• Manage VM and container workloads, including migrating VMs from legacy hypervisors
• Build and maintain networking architecture and storage integration
• Set up authentication and RBAC
• Provide ongoing lifecycle and operational support, and work directly with customer stakeholders onsite

Required Skills and Experience

• Core Infrastructure: OpenShift core infrastructure (DNS, NTP, networking, storage); bare-metal installation, including Redfish and Virtual Media; Hybrid Cloud Console, Agent-based Installer and Assisted Installer
• Virtualization: OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt), including Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV); VM and container workload lifecycle management
• Networking: Deep understanding of OpenShift networking, including required port configurations; OpenShift Virt networking (OVS bridges, Linux bridges, VLAN management); storage networking, including iSCSI
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization Certification

Platform Operations

• GitOps and Helm
• Authentication and RBAC, including Okta integration and OpenShift RBAC
• OpenShift Operator management
• Observability: logging, metrics and alerting
• OpenShift lifecycle management, including updates and upgrades

Requirements

• 7 - 9 years of professional experience
• Hybrid in Charleston, SC - travel will be week over week onsite for the first couple months and than move to a week on week off schedule
• Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. citizenship status

What is Important to Us:

• You are an excellent communicator in writing and speaking.
• You have the ability to work independently but also value teamwork.
• Your problem-solving skills are excellent.
• You are looking for a job where performance appraisals occur regularly, and you look forward to advancing your career.
• You seek a community of virtue-centered co-workers and clients.

What we offer you:

As part of the VSO company, you will be part of a virtue-centered team who value their work and teammates. This is a no-jerk zone. We provide ongoing learning and development opportunities to foster continuous growth.

• competitive salaries
• health benefits
• flexible work arrangements
• ongoing learning and development opportunities to foster continuous growth

More About VSO

VSO is a hybrid cloud and managed services consulting firm. Much of VSO’s success can be attributed to our deep partnerships with IT services industry leaders such as AWS, IBM, Microsoft and others. VSO leverages numerous other partner relationships so as to provide our customers with optimal support. Additionally, we take pride in taking care of our employees. We offer a wide variety of benefits for eligible employees related to health, retirement, professional development, and more! For more information, please visit our website at https://vso-inc.com/careers