OpenShift Infrastructure - Senior Consultant

Red River•Remote CA ON, ON

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant 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.

Requirements

Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
Experience leading successful modern cloud platform enterprise-level projects
Bare-Metal Infrastructure: Deep Linux (RHEL) and automated hardware provisioning (BIOS/UEFI, RAID, BMC/Redfish, Kickstart/Cobbler).
Advanced Networking: L2/L3 concepts, DHCP/DNS, Load Balancing, CNI (OVN-K, Calico, SR-IOV), and network security/firewall policies.
Kubernetes/OpenShift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps.
Storage: Distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/DR (Velero, OADP, Ceph/ODF).
Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm). Scripting (Bash, Python, Go).
Security & Compliance: Linux/Kubernetes hardening (RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS/PKI), and compliance standards (NIST, CIS).
Observability: Logging/monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and advanced platform/network troubleshooting (etcd, kernel, tcpdump).
Knowledge of common AddOns or third party tools. (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)
Broad and deep technical experience with VMware:
VMWare ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools
Logging and Alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk
Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX)
Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols)
Experience across one or more vertical industry areas
Ability to lead design workshops, create clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0/1/2 planning.
Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives
Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills

Nice To Haves

Additional technologies a plus: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure

Responsibilities

Implement automated, containerized 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.
Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments
Helping other consultants implement large-scale IT solution 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