Senior Consultant

About the job Red Hat's North American Public Sector Services team is looking for a Senior Consultant with a background in IT automation technologies to join us remotely in the San Antonio, Texas area. In this role, you'll deliver solutions that solve business challenges through hands-on technical implementation and enablement of recommended practices. You will be a vital promoter of adopting Red Hat's solutions for customers by using your technical expertise and interpersonal skills. You'll need to have a balance of solid technical experience, awareness of open source solutions, a thorough understanding of business processes, and the ability to identify and solve issues at the enterprise level. We are looking for people excited about working with us and growing their careers at Red Hat. We want to be transparent about what would make you most successful in the role, and if you are excited by reading the job description and feel you are suitable for the part, we encourage you to apply. This position requires daily on-site work with clients located in the San Antonio, Texas area and an active Top Secret SCI clearance with full scope polygraph. What you will do
• Guide customers in building scalable, optimally managed solutions and adaptable to technological improvements using Red Hat technologies

• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies

• Travel to client locations Monday-Thursday After joining Red Hat, You will undergo an intensive customized training program on Red Hat technologies and services solutions. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role: In two months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following:
• Understanding of how to build production-ready technical solutions integrated with existing enterprise systems

• Learn technologies and consulting skills to enhance your abilities through enablements designed and taught by Red Hat experts and Red Hat certification

• Gain exposure and collaboration within Red Hat Services & the larger organization through everyday networking and community events Within six months, be ready to support customer success on a project by attaining the following:
• Successful, collaborative delivery of customer projects as a technical lead through expertise in Red Hat's technologies

• Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat's technologies

• Continue expanding your knowledge and network, both internal and external, through enablement, communities, customers, and meet-ups Within 12 months, demonstrate technical leadership by accomplishing the following:
• Successfully implementing complex, large-scale solutions in customer environments

• Active engagement and knowledge sharing with our internal and external communities of practice on lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos What you will bring
• Experience with delivering an implementation based on an architectural design

• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation

• Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work

• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders

• Knowledge and a desire to mentor

• Broad and deep technical experience with automation technologies, like Ansible Core, PostgreSQL, Python, YAML, PowerShell, and network device automation

• Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements and implementing and integrating open hybrid cloud technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Ansible Automation

• Practical experience with GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps

• Experience with automation platforms like Chef and Puppet and technical experience with networking, storage, compute, ServiceNow, etc.

• Able to work with leadership teams to promote the adoption of automation techniques with applied knowledge and experience working in Agile, Scrum, and DevOps teams and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time to market

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Associate or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline

• Top Secret SCI clearance with full scope polygraph