About the job
Our vision is to be the defining technology company of the 21st century. We're powered by open source, and our culture reflects it. The Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is looking for a Senior Consultant to join us. In this role, you will join a team of subject matter experts who co-create innovative software solutions using emerging technologies and modern software design methods. You will be responsible for collaborating with customers and partners to accelerate their application development project, and to teach them new ways of working together to get things done. As you do so, you will create enthusiasm for building great software using principles of open source culture.
The way to fulfill our vision is to guide the strategic success of our customers using Red Hat's open source software. And the way to do that is by building the industry's best team of open source developers and partnering with our customers to build the best-in-class software systems of tomorrow. At Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, we distill that vision into a residency-style engagement, where consulting engineers work together with customers in small teams to build, test, and iterate over innovative application prototypes attached to real business value. You will use a variety of modern application development practices, along with emerging technologies from the communities of open source, to get it done. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do

• Work with our customers to rapidly build application prototypes in our Lab, using modern appdev practices and open source emerging technologies, covering microservices, API management, streaming, and web-scale architectures; DevOps engineering and application delivery; container-based continuous delivery; cloud automation, and everything-as-code
• Work with Red Hat and the open source community to engineer Labs-based software solutions, designed to further accelerate our customers' success at Labs
• Become a trusted advisor to our customers, helping them achieve business success in an ever-changing technology landscape
• Use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way
• Travel to customer locations, from 25% to 75% of the time

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline
• Experience working as part of a successful modern software development team
• Working knowledge of design patterns applicable to modern software development
• Applied knowledge of working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
• Ability to perform customer-facing activities in a fast-paced environment with short timeframes
• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with open source communities
• Significant development and delivery experience with multiple programming languages, including Java
• Experience with the design, development, testing and deployment of large, distributed applications
• Excellent object-oriented skills and applied knowledge of software design patterns
• Applied knowledge of modern software delivery methods like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container tools
• Experience mentoring and programming in pairs or mobs
• Experience working with automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Solid verbal, writing, and presentation skills
• Ability to learn on your own and quickly put into practice new topics
• Passion for open source software