Senior Consultant – Automation

Red Hat

Automation Senior Consultant driving automation solutions for Red Hat's consulting team. Balancing technical excellence with leadership and client advisory in Ansible projects.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • District of Columbia, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,420 - $215,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleChefCloudLinuxOpen SourcePuppetPythonSaltStack

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support customers in building enterprise approaches that are scalable, optimally managed, and adaptable to technological improvements using Red Hat technical solutions.
Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.
Design, create and deliver content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell (presales), service (consulting) and support (GSS) our cloud solutions at scale.
Participate in specific project workstreams, managing scope, timelines, and resources (including junior staff or client team members).
Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.
Maintain a high utilization target and contribute to the scoping, engagement delivery, and solution execution for new business opportunities.
Travel frequently (20-30 weeks per year) to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional customers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience with delivering an implementation as part of a project team based on an architectural design.
Demonstrated ability to contribute to a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation.
Ability to understand stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work.
Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Willingness to actively mentor and coach junior consultants and TDP members, which could include detailed code reviews and transferring critical technical and consulting knowledge.
Clearly communicate technical progress, risks, and ROI to both technical and non-technical business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor.
2+ years focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.
Strong background in consultative customer engagement demonstrating both verbal and written communications skills, including experience presenting or demoing solutions to customer teams.
The ability to self-study and quickly learn and put into practice new topics.
Passion for Open Source, software, tooling, and automation.
Strong understanding of DevOps methodologies, tools and how they can be applied within an organization.
Thorough (advanced) working knowledge and hands-on experience with Ansible, as well as high-level familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Salt, Powershell and others in the space.
Intermediate level scripting (bash, python.)
Technical Skills: Experience using and configuring Linux systems, and an understanding of configuration as code.
Experience with scripting languages (YAML, Python, etc.)
Understanding of the advantages of automation in a complex environment.
Experience using or configuring cloud technologies, including container management and/or orchestration.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AnsibleLinuxcloud environmentsscripting (bash, python)configuration as codeDevOps methodologiesautomationcontainer managementorchestrationYAML

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationmentoringcoachingstakeholder managementproject managementadaptabilitytechnical documentationcustomer engagementpresentation skills