OpenShift Virtualization & Linux Platform Team Lead

Function

IT

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

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.

·  Define standards for cluster architecture, virtualization worker nodes, VM placement, capacity, security, availability, and lifecycle management.

·  Manage VM provisioning, templates, images, DataVolumes, persistent storage, snapshots, cloning, live migration, backup, recovery, and maintenance.

·  Plan platform upgrades; perform health, compatibility, capacity, and post-change validation; maintain architecture and operating documentation.

·  Provide expert-level RHEL administration and troubleshooting across system services, boot, kernel, networking, storage, filesystems, LVM, logging, SELinux, certificates, and performance.

·  Own Red Hat Satellite for content, subscriptions, host lifecycle, provisioning, patching, compliance, and reporting.

·  Plan and execute OS patching, lifecycle upgrades, hardening, and vulnerability remediation for on-premises and AWS-hosted Linux VMs.

·  Design and maintain Ansible Automation Platform playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, patching, validation, compliance, and reporting.

·  Support production Linux VMs and business-critical applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), in partnership with application and database teams.

·  Lead complex incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across OpenShift, Linux, applications, and dependent infrastructure services.

·  Remain hands-on while leading design reviews, operational-readiness reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and major incident resolution.

·  Mentor engineers and communicate technical risks, dependencies, options, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

·  Coordinate with application, database, cloud, security, network, storage, backup, identity, datacenter, and vendor teams.

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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About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.