Ansible Senior Consultant

Location: California

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.

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an Automation Senior Consultant to join us. The primary responsibility of the Automation Senior Consultant is to passionately balance hands-on technical excellence with leadership, client advisory, and strategic growth for Ansible automation projects.  The main core objective is to  drive high-quality, reliable, and scalable automation solutions.  This action involves translating business needs into technical solutions and fostering client trust.  

This role contributes to the overall growth and maturity of the consulting business.

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 United States, within close proximity to an airport.  Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.  This position requires the willingness to travel up to 20-30 weeks per year on average across North America.

What you will do:

* 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.

What you will bring:
* 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.)
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