Red Hat - Senior Consultant

PROFILE 1

Container Applications (OpenShift)
Company Description:
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:
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Consultant to join us. In this role, you will specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. You'll learn to design and guide implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters using Java, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Ansible Automation, and Red Hat OpenShift. As a Senior Consultant, you won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technologies quickly will be essential.

Required Skills:
• 8+ years of software architecture experience; 4+ of those years specifically focused on cloud-ready application design and deployment
• Some experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative
• Solid creative problem-solving skills
• Background working in a strategic advisory capacity with senior IT and business executives
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift technologies and related DevOps 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 stand up production-ready container platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems
• Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers in automated fashion at enterprise scale
• Practical experience with our offerings
Within 6 months, be ready to design container platform solutions and lead routine container platform projects by attaining the following:
• Successfully completing multiple customer projects using Red Hat OpenShift
• Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a system architecture and project plan based around Red Hat's technologies
• Understanding of how Red Hat's technologies can transform software delivery (DevOps) practices at large organizations
• Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice
Within 12 months, be ready to design multi-product cloud application solutions and demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following:
• Designing and leading complex, large-scale application containerization, microservices development, or "mono to micro" migration projects in challenging customer environments
• Helping other consultants learn DevOps and container technologies and processes
• Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to containerized application development and deployment

PROFILE 2

Container/Infrastructure (OpenShift)
Company Description:
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 a Senior Consultant to join us. In this role, you will learn to design and guide implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters using Java, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Ansible Automation, and Red Hat OpenShift. As a Senior Consultant, you won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technologies quickly will be essential.

Required Skills:
• 5+ years of technology experience like consulting, operations, help desk, service desk, development, and related internships
• 3+ years of experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative
• 2+ years of platform scripting experience with the Ruby, Python, or Go programming languages
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift technologies and related DevOps 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 platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems
• Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers 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) 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 and container technologies and processes
• 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

PROFILE 3

Ansible Automation

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
Red Hat's Public Sector Consulting team is looking for a Senior Consultant focused on Red Hat Ansible Automation to join us in sunny Florida. In this role, you will promote the adoption of Red Hat's solutions at our key government agencies. You'll work on the customer site to win the trust and confidence of customer engineering, development, and operations teams by matching their requirements and use cases with functional capabilities of our solutions. As a Senior Consultant, you'll need to have detailed working knowledge of and practical experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation and a high level of familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Salt, and similar technologies on the market. You'll also need to use your solid understanding of DevOps methodologies and tools to apply them within target organizations. This is a remote position with weekly Monday-Thursday travel to customer sites. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business and hold an active clearance.
Primary job responsibilities
• Serve as the Red Hat Ansible Automation on-site subject matter expert
• Deliver and support the deployment of Red Hat Ansible Automation for enterprises
• Design, create, and deliver content that will enable us to design, service, and support our automation solutions at scale
Required skills
• Background in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain
• 5+ years of experience working in a solutions architect, enterprise architect, or architect consulting delivery role
• 4+ years of experience with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures
• Solid background in a consultative customer engagement role with a major consulting services organization or in the services division of a major software company
• Proven ability to work seamlessly with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers
• Ability to study on your own and quickly learn and put into practice new facts
• Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation
• Intermediate-level scripting skills in Bash or Python
• Experience implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous deployment (CD) pipeline
• Broad and deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure is a plus