Job Summary
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Cloud Senior Consultant to join us in Switzerland. In this role, you will work as a subject matter expert in Red Hat’s infrastructure and cloud technology. You'll answer questions about best practices around automation, reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups and lead the on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hat’s technology that delivers freedom, flexibility, and outstanding performance. You will gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructures, and business issues and you will make recommendations appropriate to their environments. This is a great opportunity to build on your core base of knowledge and work in a fast-paced environment promoting Red Hat’s solutions.
What you will do
Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience
Serve as a subject matter expert on site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
Learn new technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
Adapt to changing customer requirements
Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification and design, testing, and deployment of complex open source solutions
Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner
Deliver quality results both on-site and post-engagement that are on time and within the scope of the assigned project, including project journals, status reports, and other standard documentation
What you will bring
5+ years experience working in a consulting role
Excellent customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions
Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies on a delivery level
Experience implementing container technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
Knowledge of one or more Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Ansible Automation Platform
Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms introducing DevOps, continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management
Understanding of the open source community
Excellent analytical, problem-solving and planning skills
Willingness to travel across the region
Excellent written and verbal language skills in German and English
Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus
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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
- 5+ years experience working in a consulting role
- Excellent customer-facing and presentation skills; lead customer interactions
- Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies at delivery level (networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, HA)
- Experience implementing container technologies in an enterprise setting and enterprise-wide deployments
- Knowledge of one or more Red Hat infrastructure solutions (Red Hat OpenShift, RHEL, Ansible Automation Platform)
- Experience onboarding applications and application teams to cloud/container platforms and introducing DevOps/CD and application lifecycle management
- Understanding of the open source community
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and planning skills
- Willingness to travel across the region
- Excellent written and verbal language skills in German and English
- Red Hat Certifications
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
At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.
Why Work With Us
Red Hatters freely exchange different viewpoints, contribute ideas, and solve problems together. Our love of collaboration, accountability, a sense of community, and a measure of autonomy combine to create a powerful force that fosters innovation and makes Red Hat a great place to work.
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