At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Job Summary Specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Virtualization and Infrastructure Architect to join us. In this role, you will learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential. This is a remote based job that can be located anywhere in the U.S. within close proximity to an airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business. What you will do: Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role: At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following: Understanding of how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers and virtual machines in automated fashion at enterprise scale Practical experience with our offerings Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following: Successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies Understanding of how Red Hat’s technologies can transform software delivery (DevOps/GitOps) practices at large organizations Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following: Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments Helping other consultants learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to container platforms