About this role
- Experience in end-to-end OpenShift platform architectures (high-availability, multi-AZ, multi-cluster, hybrid cloud).
- Create migration strategies (lift-and-shift, replatform, refactor) for VMware-hosted workloads to OpenShift, including phased migration plans and cutover/rollback procedures.
- Lead proofs-of-concept (PoCs), pilot migrations, and production migrations; validate performance, resilience, and security post-migration.
- Build automation for platform provisioning and day-2 operations using Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, OpenShift Ansible/Installer, Operators).
- Define networking, storage, and security models for OpenShift (CNI selection, persistent storage via CSI, RBAC, network policies, service mesh considerations).
- Integrate CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (e.g., Jenkins/GitLab/ArgoCD) for automated app delivery to OpenShift.
- Establish observability and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/OLM) and implement backup/restore strategies (Velero or equivalent).
- Collaborate with VMware/vSphere teams to assess virtualization inventories, dependencies, and create migration timelines.
- Produce architecture artifacts: diagrams, runbooks, migration playbooks, capacity and cost estimates, and operational runbooks for SRE teams.
- Mentor engineering teams on containerization best practices, operator patterns, and cloud-native application design.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory requirements during and after migration