Ansible Consultant

About the Job:

The Red Hat India Services team is looking for a Consultant to join us in Mumbai, India. In this role, you will help us ensure that our engagements are not just a technology implementation, but an organizational transformation.

As a consultant, you will work with our lead architect in our engagements, cocreating innovative software solutions using emerging open source technology and modern software design methods in an agile environment. You'll be coached by the team to facilitate the design and technical delivery of our solutions.

As you do so, you'll create enthusiasm for building great software using principles of open source and agile culture. You'll support everything from the scoping to delivering the engagements. Successful applicants must reside in a city where Red Hat has mentioned the location..

What will you do:

Implementation of Ansible automation platform

• Assist in the feasibility study for the use cases and Ansible modules to create playbook
• Ensures service reliability meets users' needs, including internally critical and externally visible services
• Uses software & systems engineering to design, build, and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems
• Interfaces with both cloud IaaS and SaaS providers and internal stakeholders, including Support, IT, and Product Engineering, to achieve desired outcomes.
• Participates in an on-call rotation within a geographically distributed team to provide 24x7x365 production support, with responsibility to respond to urgent customer issues
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Work within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE methodologies, support your peers, plan and self-improve
• Work as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way
• Train and coach team members both on technical and non-technical skills
• Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments
• Actively contribute to and guide the creation of reference architectures, design considerations, and best practices

What will you bring:

• Hands on Ansible playbook developement
• Experienced and handson skill on linux bash scripting
• Knowledge and some experience in OpenShift by Red Hat, kubernetes;
• Experience with another Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution will also be considered
• Hands on experience using Cloud as a development environment
• Good technical skills and experience designing and implementing automation solutions.
• Hands on experience in application development with Agile approach
• Ability and desire to learn new technologies on your own and apply new concepts to problems

Good to have Skills:

• Experience with or knowledge of Red Hat's technologies like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, cloud, network patching
• Working with some community technologies like Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines, Helm, or Jenkins
• Working with application and infrastructure monitoring
• Experience with or knowledge of YAML, JINJA, Golang, Python, or Shell Scripting.