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OpenShift Infrastructure - Senior Consultant

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Base Salary

$119k - $196k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement automated, containerized OpenShift infrastructure solutions covering networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, high availability, and resilience.
  • Lead enterprise Kubernetes, OpenShift, container, and virtualization platform projects, including Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 operations.
  • Conduct design workshops, create technical documentation, provide knowledge transfer, and advise senior IT and business executives.
  • Troubleshoot advanced platform and network issues involving VMware, Linux, Kubernetes, storage, networking, and observability systems.
  • Travel to customer locations approximately 20–30 weeks per year throughout North America.
  • Complete Red Hat training and progressively implement routine and complex customer container platform projects.
  • Help other consultants deliver large-scale IT solutions and contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-to content.

Requirements

  • Associate degree or bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
  • Experience leading successful modern cloud platform enterprise-level projects.
  • Deep Linux and RHEL experience with automated hardware provisioning, including BIOS/UEFI, RAID, BMC/Redfish, and Kickstart/Cobbler.
  • Advanced networking knowledge covering L2/L3 concepts, DHCP/DNS, load balancing, CNI technologies, and firewall policies.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes/OpenShift architecture, lifecycle management, bare-metal deployment, Operators, and GitOps.
  • Experience with distributed and local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, disaster recovery, Velero, OADP, Ceph, and ODF.
  • Strong proficiency in Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Bash, Python, and Go.
  • Knowledge of Linux and Kubernetes hardening, RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS/PKI, NIST, and CIS.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etcd, kernel troubleshooting, and tcpdump.
  • Deep VMware experience with ESXi, vCenter, VM lifecycle operations, VMware tools, [S/DV]Switches, NSX, datastores, vSAN, and vVols.
  • Knowledge of VMware logging and alerting for SRE operations and integration with enterprise systems such as Splunk.
  • Additional experience with OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, AWS, or Microsoft Azure is a plus.
  • Ability to work in an advisory role, lead customer engagements, communicate clearly, present technical material, and work with agile, scrum, and DevOps teams.
  • Willingness to travel frequently and work at customer locations.

Benefits

  • Remote U.S. work arrangement for eligible residents located near an airport and in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Paid time off, holidays, paid parental leave, disability leave, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave.
  • Employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, and employee assistance program.
  • Intensive first-year training on Kubernetes, OpenShift, DevOps, and GitOps.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureBashGoGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftOpenStackPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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Red Hat builds enterprise open-source software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift for Kubernetes, and Ansible automation, sold via subscriptions with support, training, and consulting. It serves large enterprises and public-sector organizations running hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure and modern application platforms. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat operates as an independent subsidiary of IBM.

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