Senior Consultant, OpenShift Infrastructure

November 24

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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🌽 Illinois – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $127.9k - $211.1k / year

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Red Hat

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Enterprise • Cloud

Red Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, helping companies worldwide to build and deploy applications across hybrid cloud infrastructures. With a strong focus on developing secure, stable, and innovative technologies, Red Hat offers a broad portfolio including products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. These products support IT services on any infrastructure efficiently. Trusted by more than 90% of the U. S. Fortune 500, Red Hat empowers organizations to modernize their IT environments, leveraging open source communities to drive technological advancement.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1993

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Corporate Round on 1999-03

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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) • 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 • 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

🏖️ 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!