Senior Consultant, Application Migration and Release Engineering - Top Secret Clearance Required

$122,350 - $201,990/Yr

Red Hat - Annapolis, MD

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Annapolis, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Red Hat's North American Public Sector Services team is seeking a Senior Consultant specializing in application migration and release engineering, requiring a Top Secret security clearance. This role involves delivering solutions to business challenges through hands-on technical implementation and promoting the adoption of Red Hat's solutions. The consultant will work remotely in the Eastern U.S. and will be responsible for guiding customers in building scalable solutions, continuously learning new technologies, and traveling to client locations regularly.

Responsibilities

• Guide customers in building scalable, optimally managed solutions using Red Hat technologies
• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies
• Travel to client locations Monday-Thursday

Requirements

• Active Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with delivering an implementation based on an architectural design
• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation
• Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work
• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders
• Knowledge and a desire to mentor
• Experience with deploying or writing applications for one or more application platforms
• Experience with automated release engineering, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment concepts and tools
• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative
• Experience releasing and migrating to Kubernetes or other declarative/container platforms
• Experience with GitOps and declarative process automation
• Experience with blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies
• Experience with application data migration and minimal downtime strategies for high-profile applications
• Experience with application dependency management systems like Maven
• Experience with dependency and release management repositories like Nexus, Artifactory, etc.
• Ability to articulate why declarative dependency management systems should be used over lumping everything together into one giant project
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Associate or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!