Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Virtualization Platform Engineer, you will be part of the Cirrus Hybrid Cloud virtualization team responsible for ensuring the architectural integrity and successful delivery of a scalable virtualization platform for the IBM CIO Organization.
In this role you will focus on the management of virtualization platform for Cirrus Hybrid Cloud. This entails working on all aspects designing, engineering, implementing, and maintenance of various virtualization solutions.
You will help solve intriguing problems while partnering with other team members, customers, and vendors. For success in this role, you will have a strong Python or Ruby programming language background and a passion for learning and continuous improvement.
What you will do:

• Design, Management, maintenance, and support of various virtualization solutions especially the RedHat OpenShift Virtualization (OSV) and VMware.
• Create infrastructure using any from: Ansible, Terraform, Argo, OpenShift IPI, UPI, ZTP Zero Touch Provisioning
• Operate in an agile manner and under strict change control
• Maintain the environment according to the Policy Compliance Management requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Hypervisor/Operating System-based issues from Performance to Configuration
• Backing up and protect virtual environments using platform-specific tools
• Perform daily system checks, review, and respond to events reflected in various management tools, perform server patch management.
• Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems for all applications.
• Support, implement and maintain new applications coming into the environment.
• Present status information on issues and problems at the weekly team meetings.
• Document software changes.
• Document problem resolution steps.
• Assure best-practices and standards are implemented and adhered to for software systems
• Provide on-call support and implementation after-hours on a rotating basis
• Think and act like a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) as the environment relates to virtualization

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in Virtualization & Automation as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• OpenShift / Kubernetes administration such as building, patching, debugging, and maintaining clusters
• Experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale production systems
• Experience in Python, Golang and Ruby programming languages
• Strong knowledge of server virtualization technology in VMware and cloud infrastructure
• Strong Linux (RHEL) and system administration and networking skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Able to describe and traverse Kubernetes or OpenShift internals, deep familiarity with how a cluster works and the underlying architecture and its components
• Administration or usage of cloud native delivery solutions such as ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience automating infrastructure, configuration management, testing, and deployments using tools like Ansible, Chef and can explain the Infrastructure as Code paradigm
• Familiarity with managing and securing a distributed Windows Server and/or Linux environment