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

$122,350 - $201,990/Yr

Red Hat - Albany, NY

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Albany, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Red Hat's North American Public Sector Services team is seeking a Senior Consultant with expertise in application migration and release engineering, who holds a Top Secret security clearance. This remote position focuses on delivering solutions to business challenges through technical implementation and promoting the adoption of Red Hat's solutions. The role requires a blend of technical experience, knowledge of open source solutions, and an understanding of business processes to effectively identify and resolve enterprise-level issues.

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
• Join a project team by acquiring understanding of production-ready technical solutions
• Support customer success on a project as a technical lead
• Demonstrate technical leadership by implementing complex solutions in customer environments

Requirements

• Active Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with delivering an implementation based on an architectural design
• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project
• 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
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Family planning reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transportation expense account
• Employee assistance program