Senior Consultant, OpenShift Infrastructure and Virtualization

Red Hat; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 111,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant, where you'll specialize in designing automated container platforms and deployment pipelines. This exciting role involves working closely with clients across North America, implementing cutting-edge solutions using Red Hat OpenShift and VMware technologies. You'll have the opportunity to grow your skills in cloud architecture and DevOps practices while contributing to transformative projects in various industries. If you're passionate about technology and eager to learn, this position offers a dynamic environment to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Paid parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Transportation expense account

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Experience leading successful cloud platform consulting engagements.
• Expertise in VMware technologies and container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Implement automated cloud application platform solutions.
• Travel to work with clients across North America.

Skills

Cloud Platform Consulting

Container Orchestration

DevOps Practices

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

VMware ESXi

Red Hat OpenShift

AWS

Microsoft Azure

OpenStack

Job description

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for senior-level Container Infrastructure Consultants to join us remotely in the U.S. In this role, you will specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. You will learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential.

This position requires regular on-site work with clients across North America, so a willingness to travel to customer locations 30-40 weeks per year is required. Applicants must reside within close proximity to a primary airport.

What You Will Do

• Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience
• Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks
• Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role :

At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following :

• Understanding of how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems
• Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers and virtual machines in automated fashion at enterprise scale
• Practical experience with our offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following :

• Successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift
• Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies
• Understanding of how Red Hat’s technologies can transform software delivery (DevOps / GitOps) practices at large organizations

Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following :

• Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments
• Helping other peers learn DevOps / GitOps paired with container technologies
• Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice
• Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to container platforms

What You Will Bring

• Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements
• Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools
• Logging and alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk
• Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S / DV]Switches / NSX)
• Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols)
• Knowledge of common Add-Ons or third party tools, including Aria / vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)
• Experience with technologies including OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure a plus
• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas
• Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives
• Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to travel to customer locations about 30-40 weeks per year on average across North America
• Degree in computer science or a technical discipline

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The salary range for this position is $111,260.00 - $183,580.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

Red Hat () is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source () software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note : These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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