OpenShift Migration Lead

Key Responsibilities Assessment & Strategy

• Assess VMware-hosted applications, infrastructure, and dependencies for Open Shift suitability.
• Define migration approaches including Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, or Containerization.
• Conduct workload discovery and application rationalization.
• Define cluster sizing, networking, security, storage, and HA/DR requirements.
• Design CI/CD integration and Git Ops frameworks.
• Establish container platform governance and standards.

• Lead migration of workloads from VMware vSphere environments to Open Shift.
• Containerize legacy and modern applications.
• Coordinate infrastructure, application, database, security, and network teams.

• Develop Infrastructure as Code using:
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Open Shift Operators
• Automate deployment, patching, and operational processes.
• Integrate Open Shift with enterprise monitoring and logging platforms.

• Ensure compliance with organizational security standards.
• Implement RBAC, SCCs, Network Policies, Secrets Management, and image security scanning.
• Support regulatory requirements and audit activities.

• Establish Open Shift operational support model.
• Define SLAs, KPIs, operational runbooks, and SOPs.
• Provide governance reporting and executive-level updates.
• Mentor operations and platform engineering teams.

VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, VMware Automation

RHEL, Linux administration and troubleshooting

Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Terraform, Git Ops, Shell/Python scripting

• 10+ years in Infrastructure Engineering or Platform Engineering.
• 3+ years implementing or supporting Open Shift/Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience migrating enterprise workloads to container platforms.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments such as Banking, Financial Services

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Open Shift