Associate Consultant
About the job
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a recent graduate to join us as an Associate Consultant. In this role, you will play a key role as a passionate promoter of the adoption of Red Hat's solutions for our customers by using your technical expertise, software development skills, and soft skills. You must be based in any of the following cities: New York, NY; Raleigh, NC; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Los Angeles, CA; or Washington DC and the metro area and willing to travel domestically in line with our COVID-19 guidelines. Travel frequency is variable, up to weekly. U.S. visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.
What you will do
- Be a respected Red Hat subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing their technical, developmental, and strategic IT requirements
- Through practical delivery, directly impact customer software specifications, designs, testing, and deployment of open source solutions
- Respond to customer challenges, project escalations, and process exceptions in a professional and flexible manner
- Work with Red Hat project teams, balance technical implementation and delivery with customer expectations
As part of this role, you will join the Red Hat Consulting Launch Program, designed for early career consultants to be successful by focusing on your technical and non-technical skills.
Foundational Skills (Months 1-2):
- Learn tools and technologies through enablements designed and taught by Red Hat Consulting experts
- Enhance your skills by engaging in activities targeted to take what you already know and apply it to the professional setting
- Experience Red Hat technologies and solutions and gain practical experience through in-person training and earn certifications in key technologies
Field Experience (Months 3-6):
- Apply skills learnt in the first 2 months on your first customer project
- Manage problems in an innovative way in a team-based environment of Red Hat Consultants and customer as a practical contributor
- Become a Red Hat expert and a trusted advisor for customers by delivering complex solutions applied to real-world problems
- Expand a network of peers, mentors, and advisors that will accelerate your career through constant support and guidance
- Continue learning and growing through Red Hat training and certifications, Consulting-specific enablements, and more
Building Your Brand (Months 6-Your Career):
- Grow your career through combining your personal talents and passions with the skills you've learned and establish your personalized career and development plans
- Deliver on customer projects as a technical contributor through being an expert on Red Hat technologies and software development principles
- Constant learning and growth in technical and non-technical skills to create a well-rounded base for future career paths
- Continue expanding your internal and external network to Red Hat through communities, customers, meetups, and a range of other opportunities
What you will bring
- Passion for solving real-world problems through understanding customer's needs or constraints and solutioning through using technology
- Knowledge of backend software development methodologies, frameworks, and development principles
- Eager to dive deep into backend software development, IT automation, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure
- Well organized in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Comfortable with heavy collaboration to derive innovative solutions
- Ability to interact directly with customers across roles and organizations and clearly communicate technical and non-technical concepts
- Ability to learn quickly, grow, and adapt to new skills
- Travel up to every week to customer locations throughout the U.S. and Canada
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.