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    OpenShift Virtualization & Linux Platform Team Lead

    Hitachi Vantara · Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 1d ago

    Undisclosed8–13 yrsfulltimeSourced fromNaukri

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    About this role

    The Role


    Lead the architecture, deployment, and operation of enterprise OpenShift Virtualization and Linux platforms. This hands-on role owns platform reliability, security, automation, patching, monitoring, recovery, and lifecycle management across OpenShift, RHEL, Red Hat Satellite, Ansible, NFS, and virtual machines. The position also leads complex troubleshooting, supports critical workloads, mentors engineers, and coordinates with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, database, and vendor teams.


    Design, deploy, administer, and support OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualization in production.

  1. Define standards for cluster architecture, virtualization worker nodes, VM placement, capacity, security, availability, and lifecycle management.
  2. Manage VM provisioning, templates, images, DataVolumes, persistent storage, snapshots, cloning, live migration, backup, recovery, and maintenance.
  3. Plan platform upgrades; perform health, compatibility, capacity, and post-change validation; maintain architecture and operating documentation.
  4. Provide expert-level RHEL administration and troubleshooting across system services, boot, kernel, networking, storage, filesystems, LVM, logging, SELinux, certificates, and performance.
  5. Own Red Hat Satellite for content, subscriptions, host lifecycle, provisioning, patching, compliance, and reporting.
  6. Plan and execute OS patching, lifecycle upgrades, hardening, and vulnerability remediation for on-premises and AWS-hosted Linux VMs.
  7. Design and maintain Ansible Automation Platform playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, patching, validation, compliance, and reporting.
  8. Support production Linux VMs and business-critical applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), in partnership with application and database teams.
  9. Lead complex incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across OpenShift, Linux, applications, and dependent infrastructure services.
  10. Remain hands-on while leading design reviews, operational-readiness reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and major incident resolution.
  11. Mentor engineers and communicate technical risks, dependencies, options, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
  12. Coordinate with application, database, cloud, security, network, storage, backup, identity, datacenter, and vendor teams.

  13. What you'll Bring


    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
    Minimum of 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 4 years in a senior technical role focused on Linux and/or virtualization.
    Proven expertise with Red Hat OpenShift, including OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).
    Strong proficiency in Linux operating systems (e.g., RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) and system administration.
    Extensive experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration.
    Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing) and storage solutions in a cloud-native environment.
    Experience with automation tools and scripting (e.g., Ansible, Python, Bash).
    Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
    Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
    Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
    Relevant certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.


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    Skills

    AutomationDevopsDockerBashCI/CD PipelinesAutomation ToolsCloningDNSamazon web servicesCentosAnsible automationContainerdeploymentcloudCommunication SkillsArchitectureAdministrationcomplianceAnsible

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    We build resilient data infrastructures the world’s innovators rely on. Together, we power what’s possible and create real-world impact through data.We empower businesses, including the Fortune 100, to innovate and scale through data. From solid data infrastructure, intelligent data management and AI powered hybrid cloud solutions — we’re the data backbone for the mission-critical.

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