Ansible Senior Consultant

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.

• Support customers in building enterprise approaches that are scalable, optimally managed, and adaptable to technological improvements using Red Hat technical solutions.

• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.

• Design, create and deliver content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell (presales), service (consulting) and support (GSS) our cloud solutions at scale.

• Participate in specific project work streams, managing scope, timelines, and resources (including junior staff or client team members).

• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.

• Maintain a high utilization target and contribute to the scoping, engagement delivery, and solution execution for new business opportunities.

• Travel frequently (20-30 weeks per year) to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional customers.

• 3+ years of experience with delivering an implementation as part of a project team based on an architectural design.

• Demonstrated ability to contribute to a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation

• Ability to understand stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work.

• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders

• Willingness to actively mentor and coach junior consultants and TDP members, which could include detailed code reviews and transferring critical technical and consulting knowledge.

• Clearly communicate technical progress, risks, and ROI to both technical and non-technical business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor.

• 2+ years focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.

• Strong background in consultative customer engagement demonstrating both verbal and written communications skills, including experience presenting or demoing solutions to customer teams.

• The ability to self-study and quickly learn and put into practice new topics

• Passion for Open Source, software, tooling, and automation.

• Strong understanding of Dev Ops methodologies, tools and how they can be applied within an organization.

• Thorough (advanced) working knowledge and hands‑on experience with Ansible, as well as high‑level familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Salt, Powershell and others in the space.

• Intermediate level scripting (bash, python.)

• Experience using and configuring Linux systems, and an understanding of configuration as code

• Experience with scripting languages (YAML, Python, etc.)

• Understanding of the advantages of automation in a complex environment

• Experience using or configuring cloud technologies, including container management and/or orchestration

• Previous exposure to or practical experience with Ansible Automation Platform is a plus for applicants.

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and other Git Ops type behaviors.

• Possess advanced level understanding of technologies related to core IT systems and concepts such as infrastructure, networking, storage and security.

• Broad and deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies (e.g. Open Stack, RHEV, VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure).

• Container management and orchestration tools.

• Experience working in a QA role or working with ticketing systems or bug tracking tools.

• Familiarity with security fundamentals at the infrastructure (including cloud/hypervisor) and operating system level.

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on advanced automation concepts, and Ansible Automation…