Senior Consultant jobs in United States, Illinois, Springfield

What you will do:

• Own the resilience testing roadmap for vLLM and llm-d: define resilience indicators, prioritize fault scenarios, and establish go/no-go gates for releases and CI/CD

• Design GPU/accelerator-aware fault experiments that target vLLM and the stack beneath it (drivers, GPU Operator/DevicePlugin, NCCL/collectives, storage/network paths, NUMA/topology)

• Build an automated harness (preferably extending krkn-chaos (https://github.com/krkn-chaos/krkn) ) to run controlled experiments with scoped blast radius, and evidence capture (logs, traces, metrics)

• Integrate fault signals into pipelines (GitHub Actions or otherwise) as resilience gates alongside performance gates

• Develop detection and diagnostics: dashboards and alerts for pre-fault signals (e.g., vLLM queue depth, GPU throttling, P2P downgrades, KV-cache pressure, allocator fragmentation)

• Triage and root-cause resilience regressions from field/customer issues; upstream bugs and fixes to vLLM and llm-d

• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development and testing, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.

• Publish learnings (internal/external): failure patterns, playbooks, SLO templates, experiment libraries, and reference architectures; present at internal/external forums

What you will bring:

• 3+ years in reliability, and/or performance engineering on large-scale distributed systems

• Expertise in systems‑level software design

• Expertise with Kubernetes and modern LLM inference server stack (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TGI)

• Observability & forensics skills with experience with Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry tracing, eBPF/BPFTrace/perf, Nsight Systems, PyTorch Profiler; adept at converting raw signals into actionable narratives.

• Fluency in Python (data & ML), strong Bash/Linux skills

• Exceptional communication skills - able to translate raw data into customer value and executive narratives

• Commitment to open‑source values and upstream collaboration

The following is considered a plus:

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field

• History of upstream contributions and community leadership, public talks or blogs on resilience, or chaos engineering

• Competitive benchmarking and failure characterization at scale.

The salary range for this position is $127,890.00 - $211,180.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● 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

About The Job

We’re not just looking for candidates who meet all the requirements, we’re looking for people who are excited about working with us and growing their career at Red Hat. We want to be transparent about what would make you most successful in the role but if you are excited by reading the job description and feel like you are right for the role, we encourage you to apply. This position could lead to regular on-site work with clients across North America, so a willingness to travel to customer locations up to 30-40 weeks per year is required. Applicants must reside within close proximity to a primary airport.

What You Will Do

•Assist in supporting customers in building enterprise technology infrastructures that are scalable, optimally managed, and adaptable to technological improvements using Red Hat technological solutions

•Focus on customer IT Automation and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure solutions through deep technical hands-on work in these fields

•Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies

•Work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers, though virtual and on-site collaboration

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive customized training program on Red Hat technologies and Consulting solutions. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

•A baseline understanding of how to build technical solutions, integrated with existing enterprise systems, with technical guidance

•Learn technologies and consulting skills to enhance your abilities through enablements designed and taught by Red Hat experts and Red Hat certification

•Gain exposure and collaboration within Red Hat Services & the larger organization through everyday networking and community events

Within 3 months, be ready to deliver a project by attaining the following:

•Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies

•Continue expanding your knowledge and network, both internal and external, through enablement, communities, customers, and meetups

Within 6 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership by accomplishing the following:

•Successfully implementing enterprise solutions in customer environments as part of delivery team

•Engage and share with our internal and external communities of practice on lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos

What You Will Bring

•Experience with delivering an technical implementation as part of a project or team

•Capable of contributing to technical projects through sustained teamwork and collaboration, ensuring the development of practical solutions.

•Ability to be well-organized in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

•Ability to interact directly with customers across roles and organizations and clearly communicate technical and non-technical concepts

•Demonstrates ability to adapt quickly to new and unknown situations, ranging from managing deliverables to learning new technologies.

•Practical experience with at least one coding or scripting language. Examples include but are not limited to Java, Python, C++, YAML, Bash, JavaScript, React, etc.

•Familiarity with backend software development methodologies, frameworks, and development principles, including Agile, Code Management (Git), Software Development Life Cycle, etc.

•Interest in diving deep into backend software development, IT automation, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, and Artificial Intelligence

•Knowledge of and some experience with at least one Red Hat technology such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, or Red Hat Ansible is a plus

•Prior experience working in a customer-facing role is preferred

•Familiarity with open source software and open source as a business model is a plus

•Knowledge of Red Hat's product portfolio and subscription business model is a plus

The salary range for this position is $75,320.00 - $120,480.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● 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

About The Job

This position requires regular on-site work with clients across North America, so a willingness to travel to customer locations 30-40 weeks per year is required. Applicants must reside within close proximity to a primary airport.

What You Will Do

• Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform 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. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

• Understanding of how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems

• Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers and virtual machines in automated fashion at enterprise scale

• Practical experience with our offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following:

• Successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift

• Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies

• Understanding of how Red Hat’s technologies can transform software delivery (DevOps/GitOps) practices at large organizations

Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following:

• Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments

• Helping other peers learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies

• Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice

• Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to container platforms

What You Will Bring

• Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements

• Broad and deep technical experience with 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)

• Knowledge of common Add-Ons or third party tools, including Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)

• Experience with technologies including OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure a plus

• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas

• 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 30-40 weeks per year on average across North America

• Degree in computer science or a technical discipline

The salary range for this position is $111,260.00 - $183,580.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● 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