Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant

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Job description

About the job:
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 cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters using Java, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. 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 position 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:
Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, high availability, and system resilience

Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks

Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers, following Red Hat's COVID-19 guidelines

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift technologies, and related DevOps topics. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following:

Understanding of how to build production-ready container platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems

Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers in automated fashion at enterprise scale

Practical experience with our offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following:

Successful collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Knowledge of how customers' use cases can be developed into project plans and how these requirements align with Red Hat's technologies

Understanding of how Red Hat's technologies can transform software delivery practices at large organizations

Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following:

Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments

Helping other consultants learn DevOps and container technologies and processes

Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice (CoPs)

Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to container platforms

What you will bring:
5+ years of technology experience like consulting, operations, help desk, service desk, development, and related internships

3+ years of experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative

2+ years of platform scripting experience with the Ruby, Python, or Go languages

Excellent presentation and communication skills in English

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About Red Hat:
is the world's leading provider of enterprise 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.