Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Specialist

Project Information

Industry: Infrastructure for Banking.

Hybrid: 3 days per week in Warsaw office.

Start: up till Jan/Feb 2027.

Contract lenght: Long term, 12/24 months contracts with prolongations.

Project Context

• Our Client is building a strategic virtualization platform based on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as an alternative virtualization offering alongside its existing VMware landscape.
• The new platform will be developed in close cooperation with Red Hat, which will provide architecture and design guidance.
• VMware remains part of the environment and will continue operating in parallel. The goal is not migration away from VMware but establishing an additional enterprise virtualization platform.
• The organization already has experience with Red Hat technologies through existing container platform initiatives in other departments.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Operations Specialist to help establish and operate a new enterprise virtualization platform. This is primarily an operational role rather than an architecture-focused position. The successful candidate will play a key role in building operational excellence, defining best practices, supporting platform adoption, and mentoring virtualization engineers within the team.

Main Responsibilities

• Strengthen and develop operational capabilities for the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization platform.
• Drive platform administration, incident management, troubleshooting, and capacity planning activities.
• Work closely with the Virtualization Team to establish operational processes and production readiness.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code standards, operational documentation, and automation initiatives.
• Act as a subject matter expert and mentor for other virtualization specialists within the Warsaw-based team.
• Collaborate with Red Hat and internal stakeholders to support platform implementation and ongoing operations.

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise virtualization and infrastructure operations.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat virtualization technologies, or related virtualization platforms.
• Strong Linux administration background.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
• Understanding of enterprise networking, storage, and security concepts.
• Ability to work in operational environments and support mission-critical infrastructure.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OpenShift administration and operations.
• Hands-on exposure to KubeVirt.
• Experience designing enterprise platform solutions and architectures.
• Knowledge of enterprise technology roadmaps and platform transformation initiatives.
• Previous experience mentoring technical teams.
• Experience working with Red Hat support and professional services teams.

Team Structure

• Warsaw Team: 1 Operations Specialist and 3 VMware Specialists (growing to 5 team members).
• The role involves close collaboration with both local and international stakeholders.

Working Hours

Standard business hours (08:00-18:00 CET), collaborating with both local and global teams.