Senior Consultant, OpenShift Infrastructure, Virtualization

Red Hat

Senior Consultant developing OpenShift infrastructure solutions for leading industries. Collaborating with clients to implement automated cloud application platforms and training on modern technologies.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $118,600 - $195,680 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoKubernetesOpenShiftSplunkVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience.
Understand how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems.
Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks.
Go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics.
Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers.
Focus on the successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift.
Successfully implement complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments.
Help other consultants learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies.
Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline.
Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements.
Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives.
Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools.
Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX).
Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols).
Experience with logging and alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk.
Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams.
Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
Willingness to travel to customer locations about 30-40 weeks per year on average throughout North America.

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

KubernetesOpenShiftcontainer orchestrationVMware ESXivCenterVM lifecycle operationsNSXvSANvVolslogging and alerting

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationpresentationstrategic advisoryleadershiplearning agilitycustomer focusmentoring

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeAssociates degree