Senior Consultant – OpenShift Infrastructure and Virtualization

Job Description: • 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. • 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 and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems • Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers and virtual machines 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 IT 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 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 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) • Additional technologies a plus: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure • 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 • Willingness to travel to customer locations about 20-30 weeks per year on average throughout North America Benefits: • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care • Health Savings Account - 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 • Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!