Red Hat · 1 week ago
OpenShift Infrastructure - Senior Consultant
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelRed Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant to join their Consulting team. In this role, you will design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects, focusing on container and virtualization technologies while collaborating with various customers.
Enterprise SoftwareInsurTechLinuxOpen SourceOperating SystemsSoftware
Responsibilities
Implement automated, containerized 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
Qualification
Required
Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
Experience leading successful modern cloud platform enterprise-level projects
Bare-Metal Infrastructure: Deep Linux (RHEL) and automated hardware provisioning (BIOS/UEFI, RAID, BMC/Redfish, Kickstart/Cobbler)
Advanced Networking: L2/L3 concepts, DHCP/DNS, Load Balancing, CNI (OVN-K, Calico, SR-IOV), and network security/firewall policies
Kubernetes/OpenShift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps
Storage: Distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/DR (Velero, OADP, Ceph/ODF)
Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm). Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
Security & Compliance: Linux/Kubernetes hardening (RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS/PKI), and compliance standards (NIST, CIS)
Observability: Logging/monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and advanced platform/network troubleshooting (etcd, kernel, tcpdump)
Knowledge of common AddOns or third party tools. (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)
Broad and deep technical experience with VMware: 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)
Ability to lead design workshops, create clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0/1/2 planning
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 20-30 weeks per year on average throughout North America
Preferred
Additional technologies a plus: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
Experience across one or more vertical industry areas
Company
Red Hat
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open-source software solutions. It is a sub-organization of IBM.
Founded in 1993
10001+ employees
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