Salary: $180,000 - $220,000 Job Overview: - Architecting and leading complex projects, contributing to Intellectual Property (IP) and Offer development activities - Facilitate "current state / future state" multi-discipline workshops - Participate in strategic planning with the Dell Account Teams and Customer project teams - Develop solution vision and scope for customer initiatives - Work with Customers to troubleshoot and resolve deployment and integration challenges - Coach and develop junior consultants while providing oversight on multiple projects Responsibilities: - Contribute to the development of customer cloud and virtualization strategies, while facilitating design discussion around proposed architecture - Responsible for serving as a project lead - Drive high quality delivery experience for customers including excellent documentation, oral and presentation skills - Understand the customers strategic goals, business, and technology challenges quickly. - Guide the customer to adopt modern cloud and virtualization solutions. - Lead the design and implementation of tailored OpenShift and OpenStack solutions. - Oversee the end-to-end deployment of Red Hat technologies within environments. - Ensure seamless integration with existing systems and applications. {=html} - Serve as the primary escalation point for complex issues related to OpenShift and OpenStack - Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions. - Deliver continuous support to uphold the stability and performance of environments. - Assist organizations in establishing near term goals and prioritize milestones for their cloud and virtualization program. - Factor in the people, process, and technology aspects of the proposed architecture solution. - Collaborate with a broad spectrum of customer stakeholders that own a shared Cloud, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Virtualization responsibility. Required Skills and Education: - Professional Certifications: Must Have (RHCSA) preferred (RHCSE or RHCSE in OpenStack) - Passion for being a true "consultant" - driving change and transformation. - 12+ years of professional experience in customer facing IT roles with a bachelor's degree or commensurate experience. - 5+ years of experience performing client facing assessments, designs and advanced Day 2 Red Hat configuration of cloud platforms, software-defined storage/networks, container platforms, disaster recovery, monitoring, orchestration, microservices, and virtualization. - Deployment and integration experience across one (1) Hyperscaler: - Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform) - Hosting Provider (e.g., Rackspace) {=html} - Experience with at least one (1) additional hypervisor platform: - VMware or Azure Stack HCI/Hyper-V - Advanced knowledge of performing architecture reviews of replat forming from one (1) Hypervisor platform to a Red Hat Platform - And/or repatriating from one (1) Hyperscaler to an on-premises Red Hat Platform - Extensive working knowledge across five (5) of the following cloud architecture layers - Business Management, Self-Service Portal, Orchestration, Container, Integration with Hyperscalers, Hyperconverged platforms, and Networking (e.g., Microsegmentation, Containerized Networking, Federation, IDS/IPs, Network Sandboxing, and Global Advanced Load Balancing) - Demonstrate expertise as a Red Hat Consultant - Proficient in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenStack, and Red Hat Ansible Automation - Robust problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. ABOUT PGTEK PGTEK is a true consulting organization dedicated to helping clients achieve their business and technology objectives utilizing our decades of experience and business relationships. PGTEK invests in the educational advancements of o r staff by providing the necessary resources to complete Professional and Business Certifications. Our company is our people, and we treat them like family. EOE, including disability/veterans.