The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Consultant to join us. In this role, you will guide the on-site delivery and implementation of innovative Red Hat technology. You will focus on delivering quality work resulting in a positive customer experience, while building broad and deep technical expertise in one or more Red Hat technologies. As a Consultant, you'll gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructure and business needs with a particular focus on the OpenShift Platform, and make recommendations appropriate to their environment.
In this role, you will be a key driver in implementing enterprise-scale container solutions for our customers. Your work will have a direct and measurable impact, helping our customers build resilient, scalable, and secure application platforms.
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) at the client site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
- Implement sophisticated OpenShift solutions that integrate with a customer's existing infrastructure, including networking, storage, security, and identity management.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to automate application delivery and ensure a consistent, repeatable deployment process.
- Constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
- Produce quality results and provide support to more than one project in multiple industries and various types of projects
- Keep stakeholders updated on actual or potential issues that may affect project or company performance
- Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, and software specification, as well as the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions
- Provide written project documentation that can be distributed within Red Hat and the client management team
- Adapt to changing customer requirements
Required Skills
- Experience in a consulting or related role
- Experience with enterprise-wide deployments
- Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), or Open Source equivalents, including installation, configuration, and day-2 operations.
- Experience with DevOps and GitOps practices and related tools (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton)
- Demonstrated experience communicating value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders and diverse audiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
- Red Hat Certification and willingness to pursue certification within 90 days
- Must be an Australian citizen
- This role is based in Canberra or Sydney and may require onsite delivery.
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.
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Skills Required
- Experience in a consulting or related role
- Experience with enterprise-wide deployments
- Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or open source equivalents, including installation, configuration, and day-two operations
- Experience with DevOps and GitOps practices and related tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Argo CD, and Tekton
- Experience communicating project value, progress, and metrics to stakeholders and diverse audiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
- Red Hat certification or willingness to pursue certification within 90 days
- Must be an Australian citizen
- Availability for a role based in Canberra or Sydney with potential onsite delivery
Red Hat Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Red Hat and has not been reviewed or approved by Red Hat.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is presented as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision along with life and disability coverage. Access to HSA/FSA options and broadly positive reception of health benefits support the view that healthcare is a core strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, with substantial PTO for new hires plus additional recharge days and an end-of-year shutdown for many non-critical roles. Paid volunteer time, holidays, sick days, and supportive expectations around taking time off reinforce the breadth of leave benefits.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — The rewards package includes performance bonuses and a recurring quarterly bonus program tied to company and individual performance. Availability of ESPP participation further adds to incentive pathways beyond base pay.
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What We Do
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Why Work With Us
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