Cloud Consultant - Spain

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 a Cloud Consultant to join us in Madrid, Spain. In this role, you will lead on-site delivery and implementation of great technology that delivers long-term freedom, flexibility, choice, and outstanding performance. You'll not only consult, but also make an impact. You'll focus on Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or Red Hat Ansible Tower technologies. As a Cloud Consultant, you'll need to demonstrate knowledge of open source, a solid understanding of Linux, and a record of applying these technologies successfully to solve real business problems.

Primary job responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert at the client site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Constantly learn about new technologies and apply those 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 within Red Hat and the Client 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 like Red Hat Virtualization, KVM, VMware etc. and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or Red Hat Ansible Tower
• Experience with Linux or UNIX database administration, cloud implementations, and understanding of their business impact
• Understanding of the software-defined data center and related concepts
• Experience implementing virtualization technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
• Experience in infrastructure automation, preferably Ansible
• 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 impact customer process and organizational setup
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
• Willingness to travel up to 75%
• Language skills in Spanish and English
• Eligibility to work in Spain

Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Red Hat does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Red Hat and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.