Senior Consultant, Container Application Development - Active Top Secret

Job description

About the job:
The Red Hat Public Sector Consulting team is looking for a Senior Consultant of Container Application Development to join us. In this role, you will specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. You'll 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. As a Senior Consultant, 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 with weekly Monday to Thursday travel to client sites, following Red Hat's COVID-19 guidelines, and can be located anywhere in North America (NA) within close proximity to an airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business and hold an active Top Secret clearance.

What you will do:
Design automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on application concerns, including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines

Assist in presales discovery and solutions development

Learn new technologies quickly, including topics like container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, and microservices on container platforms

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 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:

Understand how to stand up production-ready container platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems

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

Gain practical experience with our offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to design container platform solutions and lead routine container platform projects by attaining the following:

Successfully complete multiple customer projects using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Gain knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a system architecture and project plan based around Red Hat's technologies

Understand how Red Hat's technologies can transform software delivery, e.g., DevOps, practices at large organizations

Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice

Within 12 months, be ready to design multi-product cloud application solutions and demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following:

Design and lead complex, large-scale application containerization, microservices development, or mono-to-micro migration projects in challenging customer environments

Help other consultants learn DevOps and container technologies and processes

Apply new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to containerized application development and deployment

What you will bring:
5+ years of software architecture experience; 3+ of those years specifically focused on cloud-ready application design and deployment

Some experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative

Solid creative problem-solving skills

Background working in a strategic advisory capacity with senior IT and business executives

Excellent presentation and communication skills

Active Top Secret government clearance

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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.