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Specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant to join us. In this role, you will learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential. This is a remote based job that 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.
What you will do
Implementation & Design: 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. Understand how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems.
Continuous Learning: Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks. Go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics.
Customer Engagement: Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers. Focus on the successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift.
Technical Leadership & Community: Successfully implement complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments. Help other consultants learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies. Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice.
What you will bring
Education: Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
Consulting Experience: Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements. Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives.
VMware Infrastructure: Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools. Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX). Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols).
Operations & Integration: Experience with logging and alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk.
Agile/DevOps: Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams.
Professional Skills: Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
Travel: Willingness to travel to customer locations about 30-40 weeks per year on average throughout North America.
Considered a plus
Knowledge of common AddOns or third party tools (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools).
Additional technologies a plus: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.
Experience across one or more vertical industry areas.
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The salary range for this position is $118,600.00 - $195,680.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.Pay Transparency
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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.
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.
Inclusion at Red Hat
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