About the job

Red Hat's Public Sector Consulting team is looking for a Consulting Architect with a solid background in Linux, container platforms, IT Automation, and virtualization technologies to join us remotely in Maryland. In this role, you will help Intelligence Community customers design and operate core infrastructure that can scale to the demands of the modern digital marketplace. You’ll work with customers in small teams to build, test, and iterate over innovative application prototypes attached to real business value. You’ll use a variety of modern application development practices, along with emerging technologies from open source communities to get it done. As a Consulting Architect, you will help us become the defining technology company of the 21st century built on open source principles. You’ll also help us to fulfill our vision by guiding the strategic success of our customers using Red Hat's soltions by building the industry's best team of open source developers and partnering with our customers to build the premium software systems of tomorrow. This position requires on-site work with customers in Maryland, so a willingness to regularly travel to client locations is required as is an active TS/SCI Full Scope Polygraph security clearance.

What you will do

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape the customer use cases and architecture design decisions
• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
• Oversee the design, creation, and delivery of content that enables the broader Red Hat teams to sell (presales), service (consulting), and support our cloud solutions at scale
• Work closely with product business, product engineering, consulting, technical support, and sales teams to ensure excellent customer experience with Red Hat's offerings
• 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
• Demonstrate expertise in cloud and DevOps communities by producing outstanding whitepapers and webinars, code contributions to relevant projects, and speeches at industry-leading conferences
• Work with customers on the writing of business justifications if needed
• Work with the open source community to engineer labs-based software solutions designed to further accelerate our customers' success at Labs
• Become a trusted adviser to our customers, helping them achieve business success in an ever-changing technology landscape

What you will bring

• Broad knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Broad and deep technical experience with virtualization, container, and cloud technologies
• Solid Linux system administration skills; Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)-level Linux skills or better; certifications are a plus but not required
• Experience with cloud technologies, especially Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Platform (GCP)
• Extensive technical experience with virtualization, especially Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer; VMware Certified Professional certification is a plus
• Solid debugging, troubleshooting, and general problem-solving skills
• Great customer service skills and desire to make users successful
• Positive attitude, ability to work as part of a team, and excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Deep understanding of working with DISA, FISMA, NIST, and STIG security guidelines and how to adhere to them
• Experience working within the US Department of Defense (DoD) and US Intelligence Community (IC)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance with SCI with full scope polygraph
• Ability to make on-site customer visits; approximately 4-days per week

The following are considered a plus:

• Practical experience with Red Hat Satellite or similar systems-management technologies
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or other IT automation and configuration management tools like Puppet or Chef
• Experience with datacenter automation tools and processes
• System administration or datacenter architecture experience
• Windows system administration
• Ruby, Python, or PowerShell programming experience
• Ability to study and learn quickly and put new topics into practice
• Passion for open source software

The salary range for this position is $122,350 - $201990. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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