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About the position The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for senior-level Container Infrastructure Consultants to join us remotely in the U.S. In this role, you will specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. You will learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential. 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. Responsibilities • 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 • Join a project team by acquiring understanding of how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems • Deploy source code into running, scalable container virtual machines in automated fashion at enterprise scale • Collaboratively deliver customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift • Develop customer use cases into project plans and align those requirements with Red Hat's technologies • Demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions • Help peers learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies • Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to internal and external communities of practice Requirements • 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, arenaflex Hyper-V, arenaflex Web Services, and arenaflex 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 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! Apply tot his job

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