Senior Cloud & OpenShift Consultant (Remote UK)

Red Hat, Inc.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant to lead design, deployment, and adoption of enterprise open-source platforms in remote UK environments. You will guide openShift and Ansible-based solutions, mentor client teams, and align cloud strategies with business goals.

You will drive automated pipelines, IaC practices, and modern container deployments while collaborating with project managers to scope and mitigate risks. Travel up to 50% across EMEA may be required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, container runtimes and CI/CD/GitOps workflows.
• Strong Linux system administration background (preferably RHEL) plus public cloud, virtualization, or IaC expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for enterprise IT automation and configuration management.
• Track record in customer-facing consulting, operations, or technical delivery, with strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex consulting engagements from scoping to hands-on deployment, building enterprise solutions using Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, and RHEL.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, running workshops, training teams, and embedding DevOps, GitOps, and automation best practices.
• Build and optimise automated deployment pipelines, continuous integration workflows, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for modern container clusters.
• Partner with Project Managers to define technical scope, mitigate delivery risks, and present technical findings to varied audiences.
• Translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions, identifying new project opportunities and bringing innovative ideas to engagement teams.
• Master emerging technologies (e.g., AI/MLOps) rapidly and actively contribute lessons learned to internal communities of practice.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD & GitOps

Linux administration

Public cloud

Ansible Automation Platform

Tools

OpenShift

Ansible Automation Platform

RHEL

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Red Hat, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant to lead design, deployment, and adoption of enterprise open-source platforms in remote UK environments. You will guide openShift and Ansible-based solutions, mentor client teams, and align cloud strategies with business goals.

You will drive automated pipelines, IaC practices, and modern container deployments while collaborating with project managers to scope and mitigate risks. Travel up to 50% across EMEA may be required.