Senior Consultant – OpenShift Infrastructure and Virtualization
Posted 2026-05-06
Remote, USA
Full-time
Immediate Start
- Job Description:
- Implement automated, containerized 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: At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following: 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 IT 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 consultants implement large-scale IT solution 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
- Requirements:
- Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
- Experience leading successful modern 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.
- Kubernetes/OpenShift: Cluster architecture, lifecycle management (IPI/UPI, Kubeadm), bare-metal deployment patterns (Metal3, Ironic), Day-2 operations, Operators, and GitOps.
- Storage: Distributed/local storage, RAID/NVMe, performance tuning, and data management/DR (Velero, OADP, Ceph/ODF).
- Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm).
- Scripting (Bash, Python, Go).
- Security & Compliance: Linux/Kubernetes 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).
- Knowledge of common AddOns or third party tools. (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools)
- Broad and deep technical experience with VMware: 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)
- Additional technologies a plus: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, 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 throughout North America
- 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!