Senior Virtualization Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Deploy, configure, and maintain VMware and OpenShift clusters in on-premises environments.

• Monitor the performance of clusters and resolve any issues that arise.

• Oversee user access and permissions within OpenShift.

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of applications.

• Collaborate with development teams to enhance applications operating on OpenShift.

• Create and update documentation regarding OpenShift configurations and procedures.

• Stay updated with the latest features and best practices for OpenShift and Kubernetes.

• Work alongside security teams to establish best practices for containerized applications.

• Carry out conversions and migrations from VMware to OpenShift.

• Manage VMware environments effectively.

• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to facilitate continuous integration and delivery workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience administering OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) on bare-metal on-premises using UPI/IPI.

• Proficient in OpenShift cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, and multi-cluster operations.

• Experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RH-ACM) for managing multi-cluster fleets, governance, and application deployment.

• Familiarity with OpenShift GitOps / ArgoCD for declarative, Git-based management of cluster configurations, operators, and workloads.

• Knowledge of OpenShift Virtualization (OCP-Virt / KubeVirt), including deploying and managing VMs, live migration, VM templates, and instance types.

• Experience with Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) from VMware vSphere and/or RHV.

• Administration of Kubernetes clusters and workloads.

• Competence in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.

• Experience managing both Linux and Windows VMs in containerized/virtualized settings.

• Understanding of VMware vSphere, including vCenter, ESXi, clusters, vDS networking, and vSphere datastore storage.

• Proficiency in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and/or Python for infrastructure and migration automation.

• Solid understanding of networking and storage fundamentals, including OVN-Kubernetes, SDN, multipath storage, ODF/Ceph, and NFS/iSCSI/FC integration.

• Strong customer-facing communication skills, including workshop facilitation, documentation, expectation management, and translating business needs into technical solutions.

• Preferred: experience managing large multi-cluster estates (15+ clusters / 5,000+ VMs) across multiple data centers or availability zones.

• Preferred: expertise in GitOps at scale, including ArgoCD ApplicationSets, sync waves, multi-tenant AppProjects, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Preferred: knowledge of Open Policy Agent / Gatekeeper, Compliance Operator, CIS benchmark scanning, and automated remediation.

• Preferred: familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Monitoring, and Loki/EFK.

• Preferred: experience with live migration at scale, workload density tuning, and bare-metal performance baselining.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility: Remote role.

• Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance.

• Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave.

• Discount on Private Health Insurance.

• Paid Primary & Secondary Parental leave.

• Death & TPD Insurance coverage.

• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

• Hands-On, Team-Customized training opportunities, including SS&C University.

• Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more.

• Travel and accommodation provided as required for occasional onsite vendor support.