Senior Linux Engineer (Red Hat / OpenShift / VMware Migration)

Role: Senior Linux Engineer (Red Hat / OpenShift / VMware Migration)

Location: London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary: £70k-£85k DOE

The Role

A tech-led organisation is looking for a Senior Linux Engineer to play a key role in transforming its core infrastructure. You’ll lead the move from a traditional VMware estate into a modern Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation platform, while also supporting and optimising the existing environment during the transition.

This is a hands-on role combining Linux expertise, virtualisation, and platform engineering.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and delivering Red Hat OpenShift platforms on bare-metal infrastructure
• Leading the migration of workloads from VMware-based environments into OpenShift Virtualisation
• Supporting and maintaining existing VMware environments during the transition phase
• Managing Linux systems across a high-availability, production environment
• Driving improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability across the platform
• Working with enterprise storage solutions to support VM and container workloads
• Supporting backup, disaster recovery, and resilience planning
• Owning day-to-day platform operations (patching, upgrades, live migrations, etc.)
• Acting as an escalation point for complex infrastructure and platform issues
• Collaborating with engineering teams to improve automation and operational processes
• Participating in an on-call rota and supporting key out-of-hours work

What They’re Looking For

• Strong Linux engineering background (typically 7+ years)
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes
• Solid experience with VMware (vSphere / ESXi / vCenter)
• Experience delivering or supporting virtualisation migrations or transformations
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and platform layers

Desirable Experience

• Red Hat certifications (OpenShift / Linux)
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualisation or similar technologies
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure or similar)
• Experience with enterprise storage and monitoring tools