Job summary
The Red Hat Public Sector Consulting team is looking for a Container Application Consultant to join us. In this role, you will specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. You'll learn to design and guide implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters using Java, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. As a Container Application Consultant, you won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential. This position is remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. within close proximity to an airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business. Successful applicants must hold an active top secret clearance.
Primary job responsibilities

• Design automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on application concerns, including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines
• Assist in presales discovery and solutions development
• Learn new technologies quickly, including topics like container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, and microservices on container platforms
• Travel to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers, following Red Hat's COVID-19 guidelines
• Go through an intensive training program on Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform technologies and related DevOps topics

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

• Understand how to stand up production-ready container platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems
• Deploy source code into running scalable containers in automated fashion at enterprise scale
• Gain practical experience with Red Hat's offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to design container platform solutions and lead routine container platform projects by attaining the following:

• Complete successfully multiple customer projects using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Gain knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a system architecture and project plan based on Red Hat's technologies
• Understand how Red Hat's technologies can transform software delivery practices, e.g., DevOps, at large organizations
• Contributelessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice

Within 12 months, be ready to design multi-product cloud application solutions and demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following:

• Design and lead complex large-scale application containerization, microservices development, or mono-to-micro migration projects in challenging customer environments
• Help other consultants learn DevOps and container technologies and processes
• Apply new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to containerized application development and deployment

Required skills

• 5+ years of experience working in software architecture; 3+ of these years focused specifically on cloud-ready application design and deployment
• Experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative
• Good creative problem-solving skills
• Background working in a strategic advisory capacity with senior IT and business executives
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Active top secret government clearance

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits

• 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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