Consultant - Openshift

Red Hat, Inc.; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Consulting in Canberra, Australia is seeking an OpenShift Consultant to guide on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hat technologies. You will focus on the OpenShift Platform, helping customers build resilient, scalable, and secure application platforms while gaining broad and deep technical expertise.

As a consultant, you will implement enterprise-scale OpenShift solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows, collaborating with diverse teams and ensuring high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in a consulting or related role.
• Experience with enterprise-wide deployments.
• Advanced knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), or Open Source equivalents, including installation, configuration, and day-2 operations.
• Experience with DevOps and GitOps practices and related tools (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton).
• Demonstrated experience communicating value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders and diverse audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
• RHCE certification, or willingness to pursue certification within 90 days
• Australian citizen; NV2 security clearance; onsite in Canberra

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) at the client site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Implement sophisticated OpenShift solutions that integrate with a customer's existing infrastructure, including networking, storage, security, and identity management.
• Implement CI / CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to automate application delivery and ensure a consistent, repeatable deployment process.
• Constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
• Produce quality results and provide support to more than one project in multiple industries and various types of projects
• Keep stakeholders updated on actual or potential issues that may affect project or company performance
• Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, and software specification, as well as the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions
• Provide written project documentation that can be distributed within Red Hat and the client management team
• Adapt to changing customer requirements

Skills

Consulting experience

Enterprise deployments

RHEL knowledge

OpenShift OCP

DevOps/GitOps

Stakeholder communication

Communication skills

Analytical & PM skills

RHCE certification

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Consultant to join us in Canberra, Australia. In this role, you will guide the on-site delivery and implementation of innovative Red Hat technology. You will focus on delivering quality work resulting in a positive customer experience, while building broad and deep technical expertise in one or more Red Hat technologies. As a Consultant, you'll gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructure and business needs with a particular focus on the OpenShift Platform, and make recommendations appropriate to their environment. In this role, you will be a key driver in implementing enterprise-scale container solutions for our customers. Your work will have a direct and measurable impact, helping our customers build resilient, scalable, and secure application platforms.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) at the client site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Implement sophisticated OpenShift solutions that integrate with a customer's existing infrastructure, including networking, storage, security, and identity management.
• Implement CI / CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to automate application delivery and ensure a consistent, repeatable deployment process.
• Constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
• Produce quality results and provide support to more than one project in multiple industries and various types of projects
• Keep stakeholders updated on actual or potential issues that may affect project or company performance
• Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, and software specification, as well as the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions
• Provide written project documentation that can be distributed within Red Hat and the client management team
• Adapt to changing customer requirements

Required Skills

• Experience in a consulting or related role
• Experience with enterprise-wide deployments
• Advanced knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), or Open Source equivalents, including installation, configuration, and day-2 operations.
• Experience with DevOps and GitOps practices and related tools (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton)
• Demonstrated experience communicating value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders and diverse audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or willingness to pursue certification within 90 days
• Must be an Australian citizen
• Australian government security clearance at NV2 or above
• This role is based in Canberra and will require onsite delivery.