Senior Consultant, Ansible, Top Secret Clearance 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 consultant promotes adoption of Red Hat solutions by combining technical expertise, open-source awareness, understanding of business processes, and enterprise-level problem solving. The role focuses on developing and integrating automation solutions using Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform, along with other Red Hat technologies, in customer environments. The position requires working on-site with clients and traveling to customer locations throughout North America approximately 30–40 weeks per year, typically Monday through Thursday. Candidates must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business and hold an active Top Secret clearance. Red Hat provides an intensive customized training program on its technologies and services solutions. During the first year, the consultant is expected to build production-ready solutions integrated with enterprise systems, contribute to customer project delivery as a technical lead, and progress toward implementing complex, large-scale customer solutions and sharing knowledge with communities of practice.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance.
- Must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations approximately 30–40 weeks per year throughout North America, typically Monday through Thursday.
- Experience delivering an implementation based on an architectural design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, collaborate on timelines, and maintain project and technical documentation.
- Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work.
- Experience collaborating across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Knowledge of and desire to mentor.
- Associate or bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
- Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements and implementing and integrating Red Hat open hybrid cloud technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Satellite.
- Broad and deep technical experience with one or more automation technologies, such as Ansible Core, Python, YAML, PowerShell, or network device automation.
- Practical experience with GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and DevOps approaches.
- Experience with automation platforms such as Chef and Puppet, and technical experience with networking, storage, compute, or ServiceNow.
- Ability to work with leadership to promote automation techniques, with applied knowledge and experience in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams and processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Responsibilities
- Guide customers in building scalable, well-managed solutions that can adapt to technological improvements using Red Hat technologies.
- Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.
- Travel weekly, generally Monday through Thursday, to customer locations.
- Develop customer solutions using Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform.
- Integrate Red Hat technologies into customer environments according to best practices.
- Guide customers in implementing automation use cases and integrating other supported Red Hat products.
- Use Automation Hub collections to automate workflows and processes and support technical resources.
- Deliver implementations based on architectural designs.
- Lead technical projects, collaborate on project timelines, and maintain project and technical documentation.
- Identify stakeholder needs and set expectations about project timelines and scope.
- Mentor others and collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Promote adoption of automation techniques with leadership teams.
- Deliver customer projects as a technical lead and develop customer use cases into project plans aligned with Red Hat technologies.
- Implement complex, large-scale solutions in customer environments and share lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos with communities of practice.
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.
- Disability, paid family medical, and paid military leave benefits.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Family planning reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Transportation expense account.
- Employee assistance program.
- May 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
