OpenStack Consultant

Job Description

Company Description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenStack Consultant to join us in Madrid, Spain. In this role, you will lead an on-site delivery and implementation of a technology that delivers long-term freedom, flexibility, choice, and performance. You'll focus on Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack technologies. As an Infrastructure Consultant, you'll need to demonstrate knowledge of open source and a solid understanding of Linux and have a record of applying these technologies successfully to solve real business problems.

Primary job responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, development, or strategic information technology (IT) needs
• Constantly learn about new technologies and apply these concepts to customer needs
• Produce quality results and provide support to more than one project in multiple industries and various types of projects
• Keep stakeholders updated on actual or potential issues that may affect project or company performance
• Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, and software specification, as well as the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions
• Provide written project documentation that can be distributed among the members of both the Red Hat and customer management team
• Adapt to changing customer requirements

Required skills

• 3+ years of experience working as a consultant or in a related role
• Solid technical background on virtualization technologies like Red Hat Virtualization, KVM, VMware vSphere, etc., and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
• Experience with Linux or Unix database administration and cloud implementations, as well as understanding of their business impact
• Understanding of the software-defined datacenter and related concepts
• Experience implementing virtualization technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
• Experience with infrastructure automation, preferably with Red Hat Ansible Automation
• Experience with cloud management solutions and tools
• Understanding of open source communities
• Ability to communicate value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate how complicated technical and architectural decisions affect customer process and organizational setup
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
• Willingness to travel 50-75%
• Language skills in Spanish and English; Portuguese is a plus
• Eligibility to work in Spain

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