Red Hat Advisory Consultant

• Salary:** $180,000 - $220,000
  
  

Job Overview

• Architecting and leading complex projects, contributing to Intellectual Property (IP) and Offer development activities
• Facilitate "current state / future state" multi-discipline workshops
• Participate in strategic planning with the Dell Account Teams and Customer project teams
• Develop solution vision and scope for customer initiatives
• Work with Customers to troubleshoot and resolve deployment and integration challenges
• Coach and develop junior consultants while providing oversight on multiple projects
  
  

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of customer cloud and virtualization strategies, while facilitating design discussion around proposed architecture
• 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.
• Guide the customer to adopt modern cloud and virtualization solutions.
• Lead the design and implementation of tailored OpenShift and OpenStack solutions.
• Oversee the end-to-end deployment of Red Hat technologies within environments.
• Ensure seamless integration with existing systems and applications.
  
  

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• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex issues related to OpenShift and OpenStack
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Deliver continuous support to uphold the stability and performance of environments.
• Assist organizations in establishing near term goals and prioritize milestones for their cloud and virtualization program.
• Factor in the people, process, and technology aspects of the proposed architecture solution.
• Collaborate with a broad spectrum of customer stakeholders that own a shared Cloud, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Virtualization responsibility.
  
  

Required Skills And Education

• Professional Certifications: Must Have (RHCSA) preferred (RHCSE or RHCSE in OpenStack)
• Passion for being a true "consultant" - driving change and transformation.
• 12 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)
• Hosting Provider (e.g., Rackspace)
  
  

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• Experience with at least one (1) additional hypervisor platform:
• VMware or Azure Stack HCI/Hyper-V
• Advanced knowledge of performing architecture reviews of replat forming 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 Hyperscalers, Hyperconverged platforms, and Networking (e.g., Microsegmentation, Containerized Networking, Federation, IDS/IPs, Network Sandboxing, and Global Advanced Load Balancing)
• Demonstrate expertise as a Red Hat Consultant
• Proficient in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenStack, and Red Hat Ansible Automation
• Robust problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
  
  

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