Job Description
Title : OpenShift Engineer
Location : Fremont, California Preferred (Remote is also fine)
Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer
(VMware Migration & Platform Modernization)
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a strategic virtualization platform. This role will serve as a technical leader for evaluating, migrating, and modernizing enterprise virtual infrastructure, with a primary focus on transitioning workloads from VMware vSphere/ESXi environments to OpenShift Virtualization.
The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in KVM-based virtualization, Red Hat OpenShift, KubeVirt (optional), enterprise infrastructure, and large-scale VMware migration programs. The engineer will be responsible for designing migration strategies, automating deployment processes, validating platform readiness, and ensuring production-grade operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering
Required Qualifications
Experience
OpenShift
Preferred Qualifications
Desired Leadership Characteristics
Success Metrics
Location : Fremont, California Preferred (Remote is also fine)
Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer
(VMware Migration & Platform Modernization)
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior OpenShift Virtualization Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a strategic virtualization platform. This role will serve as a technical leader for evaluating, migrating, and modernizing enterprise virtual infrastructure, with a primary focus on transitioning workloads from VMware vSphere/ESXi environments to OpenShift Virtualization.
The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in KVM-based virtualization, Red Hat OpenShift, KubeVirt (optional), enterprise infrastructure, and large-scale VMware migration programs. The engineer will be responsible for designing migration strategies, automating deployment processes, validating platform readiness, and ensuring production-grade operational excellence.
Platform Engineering
- Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available OpenShift Virtualization clusters.
- Design scalable virtualization platforms supporting both virtual machine and container workloads.
- Configure and optimize storage, networking, security, monitoring, and backup solutions within OpenShift environments.
- Develop standards, reference architectures, operational procedures, and platform governance models.
- Lead migrations from VMware ESXi/vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization.
- Assess existing VMware environments and create migration roadmaps.
- Define migration waves, dependency mapping, rollback plans, and validation procedures.
- Utilize Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV/Forklift) to automate workload migrations. Migration tooling is a key capability highlighted in vendor documentation.
- Execute proof-of-concept, pilot, and production migration activities.
- Validate workload performance, functionality, availability, and disaster recovery after migration.
- Develop automation using:
- Ansible Automation Platform
- GitOps methodologies
- Terraform
- OpenShift Operators
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automate cluster deployment, lifecycle operations, VM provisioning, and configuration management.
- Engineer storage integrations using enterprise storage platforms.
- Implement CSI-based storage solutions and persistent storage strategies.
- Design migration procedures for VMDK-to-PVC conversion, storage class mapping, and data movement workflows. These capabilities are central to VMware-to-OpenShift migration processes documented by Red Hat and NetApp.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity planning, and performance management practices.
- Support high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
- Develop operational runbooks and troubleshooting guides.
- Participate in architecture reviews and strategic infrastructure planning.
- Provide mentorship to infrastructure, virtualization, and platform engineering teams.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for OpenShift Virtualization and KubeVirt (optional).
- Collaborate with application owners, security teams, storage engineers, and cloud platform teams.
- Present technical recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
Experience
- 8+ years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience.
- 5+ years supporting VMware vSphere and ESXi environments.
- 3+ years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift administration and engineering experience.
- Proven experience leading VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migration initiatives.
- Experience migrating production workloads involving:
- Windows Server
- Linux platforms
- Tier-1 business applications
- Enterprise databases
OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift Platform
- OpenShift Virtualization
- Operators and Operator Lifecycle Management
- VMware ESXi
- VMware vSphere
- VMware vCenter
- VM lifecycle management
- Datastore and networking architecture
- vMotion and migration planning
- Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV/Forklift)
- Workload discovery and assessment
- Migration planning and execution
- Cutover and rollback procedures
- VM conversion methodologies
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Git
- GitOps frameworks
- Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- CSI storage integrations
- SAN/NAS technologies
- Enterprise storage platforms
- Software-defined networking
- VLANs, load balancing, DNS, and identity integration
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- VMware VCP or VCAP certification
- Experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell PowerFlex, or similar enterprise storage platforms
- Experience supporting environments with 1,000+ virtual machines
- Experience implementing hybrid cloud and platform modernization strategies
- Strategic thinker with strong architecture skills.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale infrastructure transformation programs.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive adoption of new platforms.
- Ability to balance operational stability with modernization objectives.
- Successful migration of VMware workloads to OpenShift Virtualization.
- Reduction in operational complexity through automation.
- Achievement of platform performance and availability targets.
- Delivery of repeatable migration frameworks and processes.
- Adoption of OpenShift Virtualization as a strategic enterprise platform.
- Improved infrastructure agility through convergence of VM and container workloads.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Jose, CA |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
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