Senior OpenShift Virtualization (OCP-V) Engineer in Québec

Opticca Consulting Inc. is a Canadian technology consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, enterprise landing zones, cloud migrations, and managed services. We help public sector and enterprise organizations modernize their infrastructure through secure, scalable, and automated cloud platforms built on Microsoft Azure.

Our consultants work on complex cloud transformation projects, implementing Azure environments using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices and Infrastructure-as-Code automation.

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud transformation projects
• Exposure to enterprise Azure architectures
• Collaborative consulting environment
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible hybrid work environment

About The Opportunity:

Opticca Consulting is seeking a highly experienced Senior OpenShift Virtualization (OCP-V) Engineer to design, implement, migrate, secure, and operate enterprise virtual-machine platforms on Red Hat OpenShift. The role requires a hands-on engineer who possesses strong expertise in OpenShift Container Platform, KubeVirt-based virtualization, Linux, compute, networking, storage, automation, and migration.

The successful candidate will help organizations modernize traditional virtualization estates by running virtual machines and containers on a common, highly available platform while maintaining production-grade performance, resiliency, security, and operational supportability.

You can expect to:

• Design production-grade OpenShift Virtualization architectures, including control-plane, infrastructure, and compute-node topology; failure domains; capacity; high availability; and growth planning.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and operate OpenShift Container Platform and the OpenShift Virtualization Operator across supported bare-metal and infrastructure platforms.
• Create and manage virtual machines, virtual machine instances, templates, instance types, preferences, data volumes, persistent volumes, snapshots, cloning, live migration, and node-maintenance workflows.
• Assess existing VMware vSphere, Red Hat Virtualization, OpenStack, and OVA-based workloads; identify dependencies, compatibility constraints, remediation needs, migration risks, and target-state requirements.
• Plan and execute cold, warm, and supported live migrations using Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), including provider configuration, network and storage mappings, migration plans, validation, cutover, rollback, and post-migration testing.
• Engineer VM connectivity using OVN-Kubernetes, Multus, NetworkAttachmentDefinitions, NMState, Linux bridges, bonds, VLANs, load balancers, DNS, IP address management, and dedicated migration networks.
• Integrate and optimize enterprise storage through CSI, including block, file, and software-defined storage; define storage classes, access modes, snapshots, cloning, performance, capacity, and failure-domain requirements.
• Implement security controls for VM workloads and platform services, including RBAC, namespace and project design, network policies, secrets, certificates, SELinux, compliance policies, image governance, vulnerability management, and audit logging.
• Establish backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery procedures for VMs and persistent data using supported data-protection technologies, including OADP, CSI snapshots, and storage-platform capabilities.
• Automate platform configuration, VM provisioning, migration, validation, compliance, and day-2 operations using Ansible Automation Platform, GitOps, Terraform, Helm, APIs, YAML, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, performance baselines, and operational dashboards for cluster services, nodes, virtual machines, networks, and storage.
• Diagnose complex production incidents involving KubeVirt components, operators, virt-launcher pods, libvirt/QEMU, nodes, scheduling, migration, networking, storage, guest operating systems, and platform dependencies.
• Produce architecture documents, migration runbooks, implementation plans, test and cutover plans, configuration standards, as-built documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials; mentor client and internal teams.

Must haves Required Qualifications:

• Five or more years of Linux, virtualization, or cloud-platform engineering experience, including significant hands-on responsibility for production environments.
• At least three years of practical OpenShift or Kubernetes platform experience, with direct exposure to OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt, or an equivalent Kubernetes-native virtualization technology.
• Strong knowledge of supported OpenShift 4.x releases, operators, cluster lifecycle management, Machine Config, oc/kubectl administration, scheduling, resources, quotas, and high-availability design.
• Deep understanding of enterprise virtualization concepts, including CPU and memory allocation, overcommitment, NUMA, huge pages, host devices, live migration, guest tools, templates, snapshots, and VM lifecycle operations.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, bonds, bridges, load balancing, firewalls, MTU, network segmentation, and troubleshooting packet flows.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage using CSI and working with block, file, snapshots, clones, access modes, multipathing, capacity, performance, and data-protection requirements.
• Experience planning or executing virtualization migrations, including workload discovery, dependency analysis.