Consultant, Ansible
$106,100–$169,640 year
Remote · Texas, United States or Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Consultant, Ansible for Red Hat Consulting delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions. Promote Red Hat solutions through hands-on technical implementation and enablement, collaborating with stakeholders to understand needs, design architectures, and lead technical delivery. Travel up to 20-30 weeks per year across North America to work with financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional customers. The role emphasizes continuous learning, mentoring, and growing expertise in Linux, automation (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, and related tools), scripting (YAML, Python), cloud technologies, containers, and orchestration, with a focus on scalable, adaptable infrastructure and open-source best practices. Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, retirement plans, PTO, parental leave, and other programs for full-time associates in the United States.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- A desire to mentor
- Base-level experience using and configuring Linux systems, and an understanding of configuration as code
- Experience with scripting languages (YAML, Python, etc.)
- Intermediate level and hands-on experience with automation technologies (ex: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Powershell, etc)
- Understanding of the advantages of automation in a complex environment
- Some experience using or configuring cloud technologies, including container management and/or orchestration
- Preferred but not required skills: Previous exposure to or practical experience with Ansible Automation Platform is a plus
- Possesses an intermediate-level understanding of technologies related to core IT systems and concepts such as infrastructure, networking, storage, and security
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