Senior Consultant, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Role Overview

• Implement the Red Hat Enterprise Linux portfolio, including RHEL, Satellite, IPA, Insights, and Red Hat Ligthspeed
• Learn new technologies quickly, including system management, automation, and new operating system features
• Travel frequently to work alongside our customers and geo delivery teams
• Subject matter expert in the RHEL portfolio, from installation, configuration, and day-2 operations of platforms
• Deploy and configure RHEL clusters (Pacemaker) to support highly available applications (e.g., SAP HANA)
• Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, with a strong hands-on focus — addressing technical, development, and strategic IT requirements through hands-on implementation and direct engagement
• Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values
• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting the best methods to obtain a solution
• Team up with our customers to rapidly build application prototypes using modern application development practices and open source emerging technologies
• Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals
• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including ticket or bug management
• Mentor and share your knowledge with customers and the existing team
• Define and promote the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time-to-market
• Implement solutions using design principles, integration points, and automation methods
• Handle tough problems innovatively
• Lead the creation and validation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, from detailed delivery guides to task lists
• Subject Matter expert on the Services Portfolio
• Work alongside the Services Portfolio Manager to maintain existing solutions

Requirements

• Associates' or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
• Red Hat Certified: RHCE (RHCA preferred)
• Experience leading successful modern platform and 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
• Storage: Distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/DR (Velero, OADP, Ceph/ODF)
• Kubernetes/OpenShift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps
• Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm)
• Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
• Security & Compliance: Linux 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)
• Additional technologies a plus: OpenShift, OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, 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 (this is a global role)
• English, and ideally, other language skills
• Ability to travel internationally.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• DNS
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Open Source
• OpenShift
• OpenStack
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform
• VMware
• Go

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!