Senior Consultant, OpenShift Infrastructure - Active Top Secret SCI Poly required
About The Position
Red Hat Services is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver hands-on technical implementations and enablement that address customers’ business challenges. The role promotes adoption of Red Hat solutions and calls for technical expertise, knowledge of open source, an understanding of business processes, and the ability to identify and solve enterprise-level issues. The consultant guides customers in building scalable, well-managed solutions that can adapt to technological improvements, while continuing to learn new skills and technologies. The position requires on-site work with clients in the Annapolis Junction, Maryland area and travel to customer locations throughout North America about 30–40 weeks per year, typically Monday through Thursday. Applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business and hold an active Top Secret SCI clearance with polygraph. After joining Red Hat, the consultant completes an intensive customized training program in Red Hat technologies and Services solutions. The first-year development path includes learning to build production-ready solutions integrated with enterprise systems, gaining consulting skills and certifications, supporting customer projects as a technical lead, developing project plans from customer use cases, implementing complex large-scale solutions, and sharing lessons and best practices with internal and external communities.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret SCI security clearance with polygraph.
- Experience delivering an implementation based on an architectural design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, collaborate on project timelines, and maintain project and technical documentation.
- Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work.
- Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Knowledge and desire to mentor.
- Associate or bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
- Experience delivering successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements.
- Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative.
- Prior experience with source code management tools such as GitLab.
- Experience with or working knowledge of Ansible.
- Experience with enterprise cloud solutions such as Platform-as-a-Service.
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes.
- Basic knowledge of networking principles such as TCP, DNS, DHCP, and IPs.
- Broad and deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies, such as OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.
- Demonstrated track record in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives, including extensive experience presenting to C-level executives at large firms.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations about 30–40 weeks per year throughout North America.
- Must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
Nice To Haves
- Technical certifications such as Security+ and Network+.
Responsibilities
- Guide customers in building scalable, optimally managed solutions that can adapt to technological improvements using Red Hat technologies.
- Deliver customer solutions through hands-on technical implementation and enablement of recommended practices.
- Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.
- Travel weekly, Monday through Thursday, to client locations.
- Lead collaborative technical delivery of customer projects and implement complex, large-scale solutions in customer environments.
- Engage with internal and external communities of practice to share lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Account for healthcare and dependent care.
- Health Savings Account for the 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
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
