SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Title: OpenShift Virtualization Engineer

Location: Australia || Remote

**While this is a remote position, there may be occasional requirements to escort vendors onsite for support purposes. Travel and accommodation will be provided as needed**

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Remote role
• Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
• Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
• Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:           

SS&C is searching for a skilled VMware / OpenShift Administrator to manage and optimize our container orchestration platform. As a VMware/ OpenShift Administrator, you will play a pivotal role in deploying, configuring, and maintaining VMware and OpenShift clusters while ensuring smooth operation and high availability of our applications. You will collaborate with the Engineering Team and as part of the operations teams to enhance our infrastructure and support continuous integration and delivery workflows.

• Install, configure, and maintain VMware and OpenShift clusters on-premises.
• Monitor cluster performance and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal operation.
• Manage user access and permissions within the OpenShift environment.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment.
• Work with development teams to optimize applications running on OpenShift.
• Create and maintain documentation related to OpenShift configurations and procedures.
• Stay updated with the latest OpenShift and Kubernetes features and best practices.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement best security practices for containerized applications.
• Conversions from VMware to OpenShift
• Ability to Manage a VMware environment

What You Will Bring:

·        OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) — hands-on administration on bare-metal on-prem (UPI/IPI), cluster lifecycle, upgrades, and multi-cluster operations.

·        Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RH-ACM) — multi-cluster fleet management: cluster lifecycle, governance, and application deployment from a central hub.

·        OpenShift GitOps / ArgoCD — declarative, Git-based management of cluster configuration, operators, and workloads across many clusters, including policy-driven governance.

·        OpenShift Virtualization (OCP-Virt / KubeVirt) — deploying and operating VMs, live migration, VM templates, and instance types.

·        Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) — hands-on migration experience from VMware vSphere and/or RHV.

·        Kubernetes clusters and workloads; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.

·        Guest OS breadth — both Linux and Windows VMs in containerized/virtualized environments.

·        VMware vSphere — vCenter, ESXi, clusters, networking (vDS), and storage (vSphere datastore) — enough to plan and execute migrations from it.

·        Automation — Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and/or Python for infrastructure and migration automation.

·        Networking & Storage fundamentals — OVN-Kubernetes, SDN, multi-path storage, ODF/Ceph, NFS/iSCSI/FC integration.

·        Consulting skills — customer-facing communication, workshop facilitation, documentation, expectation management, and translating business requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred / Nice to Have

·        Experience operating large multi-cluster estates (15+ clusters / 5,000+ VMs) across multiple data centers or availability zones.

·        GitOps at fleet scale — ArgoCD ApplicationSets, sync waves, and multi-tenant AppProjects; Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform); CI/CD pipeline exposure.

·        Policy-as-code & compliance automation — Open Policy Agent / Gatekeeper, Compliance Operator, CIS benchmark scanning, and automated remediation at fleet scale.

·        Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Monitoring, logging (Loki/EFK).

·        Live migration at scale, workload density tuning, and performance baselining on bare metal.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.