UK HOURS Sr. Consultant: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10

RHEL Engineer

We are seeking a RHEL Engineer to provide technical expertise and advisory services supporting a leading financial services customer with the deployment, hardening, and operations of RHEL
10 from previous RHEL versions. In this role, you will lead the strategy, automation, and execution of RHEL in-place upgrades, ensuring a standardized, repeatable, and scalable transition for an enterprise environment. You will act as the technical lead, bridging the gap between current state architecture and a modern, automated upgrade workflow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Architecture Design:
  Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points. Assist the Customer with designing and documenting future state upgrade processes.
• Automation & Execution:
  Orchestrate and communicate the in-place upgrade plan to relevant stakeholders. Develop and refine automation playbooks for snapshot, upgrade, rollback, and upgrade commit tasks. Add RHEL IPU (In-place Upgrade) Job Templates to AAP. Execute the upgrade workflow and troubleshoot alongside Red Hat Engineering teams. Refine automation processes to support diverse system types across the infrastructure.
• Validation & Documentation:
  Develop procedures to validate application hosts before and after the in-place upgrade process. Create and maintain a standard RHEL upgrade workflow (pre-analysis, remediation, snapshot, validation, rollback, and commit). Build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process for internal release.
• Technical Oversight & Facilitation:
  Facilitate workshops to fill technical knowledge gaps and capture upgrade dependencies. Identify beta users and test/validate the upgrade process vide weekly status reports to the Red Hat Project Manager to ensure transparency on project status, risks, and decision-making.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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