OpenShift Infrastructure - Senior Consultant

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The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant to join us. In this role, you will learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat Open Shift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential.

This is a remote based job that can be located anywhere in the U.S. within close proximity to an airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.

• 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 Open Shift technologies and related Dev Ops and Git Ops topics.

• 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/Open Shift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and Git Ops.

• 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 Add Ons 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 (Data stores, vSAN, vVols)

• Additional technologies a plus:
  Open Stack, 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 Dev Ops 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

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