Senior Consultant – Automation

Role Overview

• Support customers in building enterprise approaches that are scalable, optimally managed, and adaptable to technological improvements using Red Hat technical solutions.
• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.
• Design, create and deliver content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell (presales), service (consulting) and support (GSS) our cloud solutions at scale.
• Participate in specific project workstreams, managing scope, timelines, and resources (including junior staff or client team members).
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.
• Maintain a high utilization target and contribute to the scoping, engagement delivery, and solution execution for new business opportunities.
• Travel frequently (20-30 weeks per year) to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional customers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with delivering an implementation as part of a project team based on an architectural design.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation.
• Ability to understand stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work.
• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Willingness to actively mentor and coach junior consultants and TDP members, which could include detailed code reviews and transferring critical technical and consulting knowledge.
• Clearly communicate technical progress, risks, and ROI to both technical and non-technical business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor.
• 2+ years focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.
• Strong background in consultative customer engagement demonstrating both verbal and written communications skills, including experience presenting or demoing solutions to customer teams.
• The ability to self-study and quickly learn and put into practice new topics.
• Passion for Open Source, software, tooling, and automation.
• Strong understanding of DevOps methodologies, tools and how they can be applied within an organization.
• Thorough (advanced) working knowledge and hands-on experience with Ansible, as well as high-level familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Salt, Powershell and others in the space.
• Intermediate level scripting (bash, python.)
• Technical Skills: Experience using and configuring Linux systems, and an understanding of configuration as code.
• Experience with scripting languages (YAML, Python, etc.)
• Understanding of the advantages of automation in a complex environment.
• Experience using or configuring cloud technologies, including container management and/or orchestration.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Chef
• Cloud
• Linux
• Open Source
• Puppet
• Python
• SaltStack

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!