RHEL Virtualization Architect - Consultancy

London Source: WhatJobs

£85,500–£104,500

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This consulting firm is seeking a RHEL Virtualization Architect to design and deliver vendor-neutral architecture for Red Hat OpenShift within a Telco Cloud environment. This role will define platform components, infrastructure topology, and integration patterns to support secure, scalable, and resilient deployments while shaping migration strategies, enabling automation, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and operational standards.

Responsibilities:

Provide architecture and design consultancy to ensure seamless integration with external systems and automation frameworks.
Lead migration planning from Tanzu to OpenShift, including dependency mapping, downtime planning, and rollback strategies.
Support migration of non-production clusters to OpenShift environments.
Design and implement OpenShift lifecycle management processes, including patching, upgrades, monitoring, and alerting.
Drive load balancer migration from AVI to MetalLB, including design, planning, and execution

Skills/Must Have:

Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Tanzu platforms.
Proven experience planning and executing platform migrations, particularly from Tanzu to OpenShift
Knowledge of platform lifecycle management, including upgrades, patching, and monitoring
Ability to design scalable, resilient architectures within Telco Cloud or similar environments