Consultant - Container Infrastructure (Cork or Waterford Office, Ireland)

at  Red Hat Inc

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Container Infrastructure Consultant to join us. In this role, you will learn how to design and guide implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters. You won’t be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential.
This is a hybrid office job that can be located close to our major offices in Waterford or Cork.

What you will do

• Constantly learn about new Red Hat technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
• Integrate technical knowledge and business understanding to create solutions for business problems of our customers
• Proactively and reactively look for solutions that will benefit customers and create new opportunities for Red Hat
• Assist with project related activities (both technical and non)
• Work closely with colleagues in a collaborative team environment, providing and sharing information at all opportunities
• Build and maintain strong relationships with your colleagues and our customers
• Act as a trusted advisor at the client site and assist the project or technical managers in setting and delivering on expectations
• Bring innovative ideas and enthusiasm to the project team while identifying new business opportunities
• Maintain an understanding of industry practices and through project experience and training

What you will bring

We don’t expect you to check off all of these areas to join our team. Instead, we prefer to build around your strengths and provide opportunities for you to grow your skills

• Have a passion for emerging technology and desire to build a career in the IT industry
• Problem solving skills, good communication skills to convey information to internal and external clients
• Demonstrate ability to find the correct resources and collect required information
• Enthusiastic, motivated, positive attitude and ability to learn quickly
• Ability to work both on your own and as part of a team
• Technology experience like consulting, operations, help desk, service desk, development, and related internships
• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative and with scripting
• Experience with containerization, kubernetes and OpenShift is a big plus
• As part of our initiative for exploring different work life balance needs, we are willing to consider candidates who are looking to work between 80 - 100% of the time
• Comfortable working with customers and teams in a hybrid working model at customer locations, remotely, or in office as required by project needs; willingness to travel, following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines

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• Constantly learn about new Red Hat technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs
• Integrate technical knowledge and business understanding to create solutions for business problems of our customers
• Proactively and reactively look for solutions that will benefit customers and create new opportunities for Red Hat
• Assist with project related activities (both technical and non)
• Work closely with colleagues in a collaborative team environment, providing and sharing information at all opportunities
• Build and maintain strong relationships with your colleagues and our customers
• Act as a trusted advisor at the client site and assist the project or technical managers in setting and delivering on expectations
• Bring innovative ideas and enthusiasm to the project team while identifying new business opportunities
• Maintain an understanding of industry practices and through project experience and trainin