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# Sr. Consultant: OpenShift Virtualization

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Applications Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Storage, Data Stores, DevOps, VMware ESX Servers, Hyper-V, OpenShift, OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Software Tools, Software Deployment, Storage Virtualization, Virtual Machines, Virtualization Technology, Backup and Restore, Data Logging, Enterprise Software Applications, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, VRealize, Reliability of Systems, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Vcenter, Bare Metal, Performance Monitor, Splunk, Vmware
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/698D5B7431B541189B6F83F5B4F4A061/job/

## About the Role

* Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline * Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements * Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools * Logging and Alerting functions for SRE operations available from VMware and how they integrate with non-VMware enterprise systems, such as Splunk * Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX) * Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols) * Experience with OpenShift Container Platform, including OpenShift Virtualization, platform deployment, application deployment, and administration * Experience with VMware and OpenShift Infrastructure and bare-metal * Experience with networking and understanding of how it relates to Virtualization * Knowledge of common AddOns or third party
tools. (Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, Performance tools) Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills * OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure * Experience across one or more vertical industry areas * Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams

## Description

Specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Container Infrastructure Consultant to join us. In this role, you will learn to design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential.

Primary Job Responsibilities * Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience * Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks * Travel frequently to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunication, and institutional customers

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following: * Understanding of how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems * Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers and virtual machines in automated fashion at enterprise scale * Practical experience with our offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following: * Successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift * Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat's technologies * Understanding of how Red Hat's technologies can transform software delivery (DevOps/GitOps) practices at large organizations * Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following: * Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments * Helping other consultants learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies * Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to container platforms