Architect(Migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization)
Job Description
We are looking for a senior hands-on virtualization architect/SME who has actually migrated VMware workloads to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in production. This is not a general VMware, Kubernetes, or OpenShift administrator role.
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🔴 Absolute Must-Haves
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- VMware → Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization migrations — direct hands-on migration experience is the #1 requirement.
- MTV / Forklift — Migration Toolkit for Virtualization experience.
- KubeVirt administration and troubleshooting.
- Strong OpenShift Virtualization / OCP experience.
- OpenShift Platform Plus (OPP) experience.
- Advanced Migration Management (ACM) experience.
- ArgoCD + GitOps for managing OpenShift environments.
- Experience with multi-site / multi-cluster migration programs.
- Migration automation using Ansible, Python, Bash, or similar.
- Experience executing production cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration support.
- Operational readiness — preparing engineering/operations teams to support the migrated environment.
- Strong knowledge transfer/documentation experience, including MOPs, migration procedures, diagrams, runbooks, and training.
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🔧 Core Technical Skills
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The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with:
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Virtualization: VMware vSphere/ESXi, OpenShift Virtualization, KVM, QEMU, KubeVirt
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Migration: MTV, Forklift, VM conversion, OVA → QCOW, production cutovers, migration validation, rollback
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OpenShift: OCP, OpenShift Virtualization, OpenShift Platform Plus, ACM, Multus CNI, OVN, vSwitch/networking
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Storage: Ceph, LVM, persistent storage
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Linux: RHEL, Linux administration and troubleshooting
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Networking: OpenShift networking, DNS, PKI, Multus, OVN
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Automation: Ansible, Python, Bash
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DevOps/GitOps: ArgoCD, GitOps, CI/CD