Principal Ansible Consultant (Ansible/Openshift)

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage Ansible with a deep understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, container orchestration, and automation at scale.
• Win the confidence of 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 solutions.
• Understand industry practices and policies, procedures, and values
• Considers customer culture/organization in their design and delivery of their projects and brings attention to opportunities for improvement
• Good experience in defining 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 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