Senior Consultant, OpenShift Infrastructure, Virtualization

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.
• Understand how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems.
• Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks.
• Go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics.
• Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers.
• Focus on the successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift.
• Successfully implement complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments.
• Help other consultants learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies.
• Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice.

Requirements

• Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
• Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements.
• Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives.
• Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools.
• 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).
• Experience with logging and alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk.
• 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 throughout North America.