Senior Platform Consultant

Role Overview

• Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on applications and infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience
• Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Adapt to changing customer requirements
• Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification and design, testing, customer training, and deployment of complex open source solutions
• Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner
• Deliver quality results both on-site and post-engagement that are on time and within the scope of the assigned project, including project journals, status reports, and other standard documentation
• Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values
• Learn new technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting best methods to obtain solutions

Requirements

• 4+ years experience working in a consulting role
• Experience working directly with enterprise stakeholders on a range of development and deployment projects
• Excellent customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions
• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies on a delivery level
• Knowledge and experience implementing container technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
• Knowledge of and experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology and container technologies like Red Hat Openshift, and related infrastructure technologies on a delivery level
• Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms introducing DevOps, continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management
• Knowledge of and experience Istio (RH OpenShift Service Mesh)
• Knowledge of and experience with AppDev Red Hat’s solutions like ArgoCD (RH Openshift GitOps), continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and related technologies as Jenkins, Tekton or similar; RH Build of Keycloak, FUSE/Camel, RH Connectivity Link, 3scale and AMQ (Kafka and/or Broker).
• Knowledge of application architecture, including application servers, integration patterns, microservices
• Ability to code in some programming languages (Go, Python, Java...)
• Knowledge of Ansible and Automation
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, planning and communication skills
• Willingness to travel up to 50%
• Excellent written and verbal language skills in Spanish and English

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Microservices
• Open Source
• OpenShift
• Python
• Go

Benefits

• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, or the ability to get it within a few weeks of the start date is a plus