Principal Automation Consultant (Ansible/OpenShift)

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage Ansible with a deep understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, container orchestration, and automation at scale.
• Win the confi dence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.
• Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values
• Trusted advisor to Red Hat and customer resources
• Considers customer culture/organization in their design and delivery of their projects and brings attention to opportunities for improvement
• Good experience in defi ning best practices for deployment, platform hardening, platform observability, monitoring and alerting, capacity management, scalability, resiliency, security operations.
• Accelerates collaboration across stakeholders and the different teams in the project
• Mentor and guide junior consultants and customer engineers.
• Contribute to Red Hat’s internal methodologies, playbooks, reference architectures, and shared consulting assets.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, platform engineering, and open source trends and incorporate them into customer solutions.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience working in a consulting/resident engineer role
• Hands On Experience and advanced knowledge of Red Hat Ansible platform and playbook development
• Proven expertise in operationalization of Red Hat Ansible platform
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation tools, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience OpenShift Container platform and Kubernetes.
• Good customer-facing skills, ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with both technical and business audiences
• Engagement in open source communities or contributor background  
• Must have Red Hat certifications in Automation
• Proven ability to lead technical projects, coordinate cross-functional teams, and produce high-quality deliverables