OpenShift Consultant
About The Position
Red Hat Consulting is seeking a Consultant to help deliver solutions to customers’ business challenges through hands-on technical implementation and enablement of recommended practices. The role promotes adoption of Red Hat solutions and requires technical expertise, interpersonal skills, awareness of open source, a baseline understanding of business processes, and the ability to solve issues at the enterprise level. The consultant will help customers build scalable, well-managed, adaptable enterprise technology infrastructures using Red Hat technologies. The role involves frequent travel—approximately 20–30 weeks per year on average—across North America to work alongside customers in financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional sectors. Red Hat provides an intensive customized training program in its technologies and Customer Success solutions. Early development includes learning to build technical solutions with guidance and joining a project team; within six months, contributing technically to customer project delivery and planning; and within twelve months, implementing complex enterprise solutions and sharing lessons and practices with internal and external communities.
Requirements
- Experience delivering an implementation as part of a project team based on an architectural design.
- Ability to contribute to a technical project, collaborate on project timelines, and maintain project and technical documentation.
- Ability to understand stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work.
- Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Desire to mentor.
- Base-level experience using and configuring Linux systems and understanding of configuration as code; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is preferred.
- Intermediate technical experience with one or more virtualization or cloud technologies, such as OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, AWS, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with scripting languages such as YAML or Python.
- Understanding of the advantages of automation in a complex environment.
- Some experience using or configuring cloud technologies, including container management and/or orchestration.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes on GKE, EKS, or AKS.
- Previous exposure to or practical experience with OpenShift.
- Intermediate-level understanding of technologies related to core IT systems and concepts, including infrastructure, networking, storage, and security.
Responsibilities
- Help deliver solutions that address customers’ business challenges through hands-on technical implementation and enablement of recommended practices.
- Promote adoption of Red Hat solutions by applying technical expertise and interpersonal skills.
- Support customers in building scalable, optimally managed, and adaptable enterprise technology infrastructures using Red Hat solutions.
- Contribute to project delivery as part of a technical team, including collaboration on timelines and maintenance of project and technical documentation.
- Understand stakeholder needs and set expectations about project timelines and scope of work.
- Travel frequently, approximately 20–30 weeks per year, to work alongside customers across North America.
- Continue learning and adapting to new skills and technologies.
- Mentor others and, over time, implement complex enterprise solutions and share lessons learned and best practices with communities of practice.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Account for healthcare and dependent care.
- Health Savings Account for a high-deductible medical plan.
- Retirement 401(k) with employer match.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Paid parental leave plans for all new parents.
- Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Family planning reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Transportation expense account.
- Employee assistance program.
- The position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
