The Red Hat Technology Services team in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) is looking for a Platform Engineering Consultant to join us in Madrid, Spain. In this role, you will perform on-site delivery and implementation of modern Red Hat technology. You will focus on delivering quality work resulting in a positive customer experience, while building broad and deep technical expertise in Red Hat technologies. You'll gain understanding of our customers’ infrastructures and business needs and make recommendations appropriate to their environment to create possibilities and resolve issues. As a Platform Engineering Consultant, you will work closely with customers to gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructure with a particular focus on Red Hat OpenShift, application deployment and business needs and make recommendations appropriate to their environment. You will also support other consultants, associates, and partners in developing best practices and methods, mainly based on OpenShift and related technologies.
What you will do
Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, development, or strategic IT requirements
Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification and design, implementation, testing, customer training, and deployment of enterprise-grade open source solutions
Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values
Demonstrate good judgment in selecting best methods to obtain solutions
What you will bring
Experience working directly with enterprise stakeholders on a range of development and deployment projects
Demonstrated experience with and advanced knowledge of Istio (RH OpenShift Service Mesh)
Demonstrated experience with ArgoCD (RH OpenShift GitOps)
Knowledge of and experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and container technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker
Knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and related technologies as Jenkins, Tekton or similar
Ability to code in some programming languages (Go, Python, Java...)
Knowledge of Ansible and Automation
Ability to quickly learn new technologies
Ability to communicate value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders of technical and business audiences
Willingness to travel up to 50%
Fluent language skills in Spanish and English
The following will be a plus:
Practical experience with agile methods
Knowledge of application architecture, including application servers, integration patterns, microservices
Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge of Virtualization
Interest in, passion for, and experience working with open source technologies and communities
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Opportunities are open. Join us.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions of diversity that compose our global village.
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