[Remote] OpenShift Infrastructure - Senior Consultant
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions. The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects, focusing on container and virtualization technologies.
Responsibilities
- Implement automated, containerized solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and 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
- After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics
Skills
- Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
- Experience leading successful modern cloud platform enterprise-level projects
- Bare-Metal Infrastructure: Deep Linux (RHEL) and automated hardware provisioning (BIOS/UEFI, RAID, BMC/Redfish, Kickstart/Cobbler)
- Advanced Networking: L2/L3 concepts, DHCP/DNS, Load Balancing, CNI (OVN-K, Calico, SR-IOV), and network security/firewall policies
- Kubernetes/OpenShift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps
- Storage: Distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/DR (Velero, OADP, Ceph/ODF)
- Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm). Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
- Security & Compliance: Linux/Kubernetes hardening (RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS/PKI), and compliance standards (NIST, CIS)
- Observability: Logging/monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and advanced platform/network troubleshooting (etcd, kernel, tcpdump)
- Knowledge of common AddOns or third party tools. (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)
- Broad and deep technical experience with VMware: VMWare ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools, Logging and Alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk, 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)
- Ability to lead design workshops, create clear documentation, and provide knowledge transfer for Day-0/1/2 planning
- Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives
- Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
- Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
- Willingness to travel to customer locations about 20-30 weeks per year on average throughout North America
- 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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