Contribute to the development of customer cloud and virtualization strategies, while facilitating design discussion around proposed architecture, be responsible for serving as a project lead, drive high quality delivery experience for customers including excellent documentation, oral and presentation skills.
Understand the customers strategic goals, business, and technology challenges quickly and guide the customer to adopt modern cloud and virtualization solutions.
Demonstrated expertise as a Red Hat Consultant, proficient in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation, coupled with robust problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
Lead the design and implementation of tailored OpenShift and OpenStack solutions, overseeing the end-to-end deployment of Red Hat technologies within these environments and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and applications.
Serve as the primary escalation point for complex issues related to OpenShift and OpenStack, conducting root cause analysis, implementing corrective actions, and delivering continuous support to uphold the stability and performance of these environments.
Essential Requirements
13+ years of professional experience in customer facing IT roles with a bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience, 5+ years of experience performing client facing assessments, designs and advanced Day 2 Red Hat configuration of cloud platforms, software-defined storage/networks, container platforms, disaster recovery, monitoring, orchestration, microservices, and virtualization
Deployment and integration experience across one (1) Hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform) or one Hosting Provider (e.g., Rackspace)
Experience with at least one (1) additional hypervisor platform (VMware or Azure Stack HCI/Hyper-V)
Advanced knowledge of performing architecture reviews of replatforming from one (1) Hypervisor platform to a Red Hat Platform and/or repatriating from one (1) Hyperscaler to an on-premises Red Hat Platform
Extensive working knowledge across five (5) of the following cloud architecture layers; Business Management, Self-Service Portal, Orchestration, Container, Integration with Hyper-scalers, Hyperconverged platforms, and Networking (e.g., Micro-segmentation, Containerized Networking, Federation, IDS/IPs, Network Sandboxing, and Global Advanced Load Balancing)
Desirable Requirements
Professional Certifications: Must Have (RHCSA) preferred (RHCSE or RHCSE in OpenStack)
Passion for being a true “consultant”, driving change and transformation.