OpenShift Infrastructure - Senior Consultant
About The Position
Red Hat Consulting is seeking a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant to learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects involving container and virtualization technologies. The role focuses on implementing automated, containerized solutions and infrastructure concerns such as networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, high availability, and system resilience. The consultant will learn emerging technologies and participate in an intensive training program covering Kubernetes, OpenShift, DevOps, and GitOps. This is a remote-based position located anywhere in the United States, provided the associate lives in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business and is within close proximity to an airport. The role involves frequent travel to customer locations, averaging approximately 20–30 weeks per year throughout North America. The consultant will work with customers across industries including financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional sectors. During the first year, the consultant is expected to build practical expertise in production-ready container and virtualization platforms, contribute to routine OpenShift projects, and progress toward technical leadership on complex, large-scale container platform implementations. Responsibilities also include sharing lessons learned and best practices with internal and external communities.
Requirements
- Associate degree, bachelor's degree, or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
- Experience leading successful modern cloud platform enterprise-level projects.
- Deep Linux (RHEL) and automated hardware provisioning experience, including BIOS/UEFI, RAID, BMC/Redfish, and Kickstart/Cobbler.
- Advanced networking knowledge, including L2/L3 concepts, DHCP/DNS, load balancing, CNI technologies (OVN-K, Calico, SR-IOV), and network security/firewall policies.
- Kubernetes/OpenShift experience, including cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps.
- Storage experience involving distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/disaster recovery tools such as Velero, OADP, and Ceph/ODF.
- Strong proficiency in Ansible and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm; scripting experience with Bash, Python, or Go.
- Security and compliance experience with Linux/Kubernetes hardening, including RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS/PKI, and standards such as NIST and CIS.
- Observability experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, and advanced platform/network troubleshooting involving etcd, kernel, and tcpdump.
- Knowledge of common add-ons or third-party tools, such as Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, backup software, and performance tools.
- Broad and deep technical experience with VMware, including ESXi, vCenter, and VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools.
- Experience with VMware logging and alerting functions for SRE operations and their integration with non-VMware enterprise systems such as Splunk.
- Expert-level knowledge of VMware virtual machine networking technologies, including [S/DV]Switches and NSX.
- Expert-level knowledge of VMware virtual machine storage technologies, including datastores, vSAN, and vVols.
- Ability to lead design workshops, produce clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0/1/2 planning.
- Demonstrated experience in a strategic advisory role with senior IT and business executives.
- Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams.
- Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations approximately 20–30 weeks per year throughout North America.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience across one or more vertical industry areas.
Responsibilities
- Implement automated, containerized solutions focused on infrastructure, including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, high availability, and system resilience.
- Learn and apply technologies involving container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks.
- Travel to customer locations and work alongside customers on implementation projects.
- Participate in intensive training on Kubernetes, OpenShift, DevOps, and GitOps technologies.
- Lead design workshops, create clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 planning.
- Develop customer use cases into project plans and align requirements with Red Hat technologies.
- Implement routine and complex, large-scale container platform solutions in customer environments.
- Help other consultants implement large-scale IT solutions paired with container technologies.
- Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-to materials to internal and external communities of practice.
- Apply new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to container platforms.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Account for healthcare and dependent care.
- Health Savings Account for the high-deductible medical plan.
- 401(k) retirement plan 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
