Principal Consultant: Ansible Automation Platform & OpenShift

Job Description

A Senior Consultant focused on AAP and Open Shift will lead the assessment, design, modernization, and optimization of enterprise automation platforms across complex hybrid environments. On a day-to-day basis, this individual will work closely with client infrastructure, platform, and security teams to evaluate current-state AAP deployments, architect highly available target-state solutions, and guide migrations across legacy AAP 1.x, AAP 2.4, and AAP 2.6 environments.

They will administer and support Open Shift-based automation deployments, including managing AAP Operator implementations, custom resources, persistent storage, clustered databases, and backup and restore processes in containerized environments. This consultant will also design and enhance next‑generation automation capabilities by implementing Event‑Driven Ansible to respond to real‑time observability events and by establishing Private Automation Hub guardrails for securely governing execution environments and curated automation content.

In parallel, they will review and modernize existing Ansible playbooks and automation code, ensuring compatibility with newer Ansible Core versions, improving performance, enforcing coding standards, and resolving security risks and deprecated components. The role requires strong integration experience across enterprise Linux and Windows environments, including navigating network boundaries, proxy configurations, air‑gapped deployments, and integrations with CMDBs, Git‑based version control, and CI/CD pipelines.

Additionally, the consultant will be responsible for translating security and compliance requirements into platform configuration, RBAC models, credential governance, and auditable automation workflows. From an operational strategy perspective, they will create technical roadmaps, disaster recovery plans, architecture decision records, and low‑risk migration and rollback strategies while communicating platform value, ROI, and self‑service capabilities to both technical and executive stakeholders. This person will also support enterprise OS lifecycle initiatives such as RHEL 8 to RHEL 9 upgrades using Leapp, manage phased application and PostgreSQL schema migrations aligned to Red Hat best practices, and help clients evolve from legacy RPM‑based AAP deployments toward modern containerized and Open Shift Operator‑based architectures.

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• Enterprise AAP Lifecycle & Multi‑Cluster Mesh Architecture:
  Elite competency in assessing current‑state deployments, designing highly available target‑state architectures, and orchestrating migrations across legacy AAP 1.x, AAP 2.4, and AAP 2.6 environments. Includes deep expertise in scaling hybrid topologies via Automation Mesh and optimizing VM execution node clustering.
• Cloud‑Native Open Shift & Operator‑Based Engineering:
  Hands‑on knowledge of Red Hat Open Shift administration and cloud‑native container infrastructure. This requires defining custom Open Shift resources, deploying and updating via the AAP Operator, and managing persistent state, storage parameters, and clustered database backups/restores within containerized environments.
• Next‑Gen Automation Ecosystem…