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.