Consultant

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Consultant to join us in Canberra, Australia. In this role, you will help explain the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related management, virtualization, and cloud solutions to our customers. You'll gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructures and business needs. As a Consultant, you will work closely with customers on various specific initiatives including architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related cloud and management solutions, including Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and Red Hat Cloud Suite. You'll need to have excellent technical abilities and solid communication and customer-facing skills.

• Routinely assess, design, and implement Red Hat's core offerings, including Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
• Serve as a subject matter expert on site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification and design, testing, and deployment of complex open source solutions
• Adapt to changing customer requirements
• Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner
• Deliver quality results both on-site and post-engagement that are on time and within the scope of the assigned project, including project journals, status reports, and other standard documentation
• Participate in sales and proposal presentations as needed in addition to completing ongoing team account activities

• 2+ years of experience working with Linux and open source systems in a business environment
• 2+ years of scripting or programming experience
• Knowledge of system management, including installation, custom channels, deploying virtualized systems, basic client-based security, repositories, and creating core builds
• Experience with creation and maintenance of basic RPMs and development and deployment of a core profile
• Automation experience using basic Linux programming in languages like C, Python, Ruby, Perl, or shell; excellent shell scripting abilities in Bash, KornShell, C Shell, Perl, etc.
• Experience with management and deployment of physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems
• Experience creating high availability clusters, understanding key issues when implementing cluster solutions for customers, and creating and managing file systems
• Knowledge of a variety of virtualization and cloud technologies, of setting up virtual environments using host and guest, and of migrating from physical to virtual environments
• TSPV government security clearance

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

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