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

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