Senior Consultant, OpenShift/OpenStack

RED HAT ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Asia Pacific is seeking a Senior Consultant in Singapore to promote Red Hat solutions across ASEAN, lead medium to large projects, and mentor teams. You will design platform architectures using OpenShift, Kubernetes, and automation, while engaging enterprise accounts, government agencies, and service partners.

You will mentor others and advocate for customer-centric, value-driven solutions. You will deliver workshops, architecture reviews, and technical proposals, aligning customer needs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a consulting role.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift platforms.
• In-depth expertise managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments.
• Proven expertise in operationalizing OpenShift with Service Mesh, GitOps, and serverless.
• Experience with RHEL, Satellite, and Pacemaker.
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualisation or similar platforms.
• Experience migrating workloads to OpenShift.
• Proven leadership in modern software/platform transformation projects.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation/CI/CD.
• Strong customer-facing, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Red Hat OpenShift certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement modern platform architectures with OpenShift and automation at scale.
• Lead workshops and design sessions to shape customer architecture decisions.
• Act as trusted advisor to Red Hat and customer resources.
• Deliver architecture reviews and knowledge transfer to customer teams.
• Mentor junior consultants and customer engineers.
• Engage in scoping, proposals, and solution demos.
• Contribute to internal methodologies and reference architectures.
• Stay current with Kubernetes and platform engineering trends.

Skills

Years of experience

Leadership

Customer-facing

Facilitation

Mentoring

Presentation

Communication

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Service Mesh

Automation

Job description

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Consultant to join us in Singapore supporting the ASEAN region.

In this role, you will promote the adoption of Red Hat's solutions at our key enterprise accounts, government agencies, and service provider partners. You'll define requirements and deliver solutions based on the Red Hat portfolio of solutions and services offerings. You will lead medium to large‑size project teams and ensure the quality of customer deliverables for one or more projects. You will apply well‑developed consulting, business, and process expertise in your work and coach and mentor others while building good customer relationships. You will earn the trust and confidence of our customer Project, Development, and Operations teams by matching their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of our solutions. As a Senior Consultant, you will serve as a customer advocate within Red Hat, delivering the right solutions and ensuring that these solutions are implemented and supported in a creative and reliable way.

What you will do:

• Design and implement modern platform architectures with a strong understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualisation, and automation at scale.

• Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis, and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.

• Understand industry practices and Red Hat’s policies, procedures, and values.

• Act as a trusted advisor to technical Red Hat and customer resources.

• Consider customer culture and organizational context in design and delivery, and highlight opportunities for improvement.

• Support technical workshops, and proofs of concept by bringing business context and value‑first thinking.

• Demonstrate strong experience in defining best practices for platform deployment, hardening, observability, monitoring and alerting, capacity management, scalability, resiliency, and security operations.

• Accelerate collaboration across stakeholders and project teams.

• Deliver workshops, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and knowledge transfer to customer teams.

• Mentor and guide junior consultants and customer engineers.

• Engage in scoping, technical proposal development, solution demos, and architectural reviews.

• Contribute to Red Hat’s internal methodologies, playbooks, reference architectures, and shared consulting assets.

• Stay current with emerging technologies, Kubernetes, platform engineering, and open‑source trends, and incorporate them into customer solutions.

What you will bring:

• 10+ years of experience working in a consulting role

• Hands‑on experience and advanced knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift platforms

• In‑depth expertise in managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi‑cloud environments

• Proven expertise in operationalizing the Red Hat OpenShift container platform through adoption of Service Mesh, GitOps principles, and serverless frameworks

• Experience with RHEL, Satellite, and Pacemaker

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, or similar platforms

• Experience migrating workloads to the OpenShift container platform

• Proven leadership in modern software and platform transformation projects

• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation tools, and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong customer‑facing skills, with the ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with both technical and business audiences

• Engagement in open‑source communities or contributor background

• Red Hat OpenShift certification is required