Senior Consultant, Application Migration and Release Engineering - Mead, United States - Red Hat

    Red Hat
    Red Hat Mead, United States

    1 month ago

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    About the job

    Red Hat's North American Public Sector Services team is looking for a Senior Consultant with a background in application migration and release engineering to join us remotely the DMV.

    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 blend 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.


    Residency within the greater DC/Maryland/Northern Virginia area is strongly preferred to facilitate onsite interactions with customers, partners, and internal delivery teams.

    A Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) is also required.

    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

    Experience with deploying or writing applications for one or more application platforms

    Experience with automated release engineering, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment concepts and tools

    Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative

    Experience releasing and migrating to Kubernetes or other declarative/container platforms

    Experience with GitOps and declarative process automation

    Experience with blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies

    Experience with application data migration and minimal downtime strategies for high-profile applications

    Experience with application dependency management systems like Maven

    Experience with dependency and release management repositories like Nexus, Artifactory, etc.

    Ability to articulate why declarative dependency management systems should be used over lumping everything together into one giant project

    Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

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

    The salary range for this position is $122,350 - $201,990. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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