Cloud Platform Virtualization Engineer

About this role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced VMware and OpenShift Virtualization Engineer to join our dynamic Globally positioned, on premises cloud platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and ongoing management of our Virtualization services. You will ensure the stability, performance, and security of our virtualized workloads, leveraging your expertise in VMware and OpenShift, and virtualization technologies. This position requires a strong understanding of architecting/engineering end-to-end solutions, day-2 operations, proactive monitoring, and a commitment to operational excellence.

Capacity Management

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the OpenShift Virtualization platform, including compute, memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion.
• Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization.
• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs.
• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning.

OSV Automation & Efficiency

• Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management (like snapshot removal), auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems
• Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing
• Namespace and Resource Quota management (CPU, Disk and Storage)

Observability, Monitoring, logging and Troubleshooting

• Implement and maintain comprehensive end to end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the OSV environment, including int...