Consultant - OpenShift

Red Hat, Inc.; Canberra; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Consulting seeks an OpenShift Consultant to join our Canberra team. You will lead on-site delivery and implementation of OpenShift solutions, ensuring high-quality outcomes and secure, scalable platforms for customers.

You will work with OpenShift, RHEL, and GitOps tooling, while communicating effectively with stakeholders and maintaining project documentation. This role is based in Canberra and requires Australian citizenship with NV2 clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience in a consulting or related role.
• Onsite delivery experience in Australia is preferred.
• Australian citizen with NV2+ clearance or higher is required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for Red Hat OpenShift at the client site.
• Implement OpenShift solutions integrating with existing infrastructure (networking, storage, security, identity).
• Set up CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to automate delivery.
• Communicate progress, risks, and metrics to stakeholders.
• Produce project documentation for Red Hat and client teams.
• Adapt to changing customer requirements and environments.

Skills

Communication

Project management

Problem solving

Client-facing

Education

RHCE certification

Tools

OpenShift Container Platform

RHEL

Ansible

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Tekton

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.