Red Hat Subject Matter expert

Here is OUR CLIENT REQUIREMENT which can be filled immediately.

Position: Red Hat SME

Location: Remote

Duration: Contract

The Red Hat SME would be responsible for providing technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development, and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems in the subject matter area. Make recommendations and advise on organization-wide system improvements, optimization or maintenance efforts in the following specialties: information systems architecture; networking; telecommunications; automation; communications protocols; risk management/electronic analysis; software; lifecycle management; software development methodologies; and modeling and simulation. Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise

The Red Hat SME should have the following skills:

Expert knowledge of RHEL, Red Hat technologies (e.g. Satellite, OpenShift, Ansible, Puppet, etc.), network configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and server configuration.

Experience with supporting RHEL/7 environments to include OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

Ability to assist customer to build-out the Red Hat lab environment

Ability to validate OCP cluster environments

Experience in supporting OCP migrations and updating migration plans to transition applications from existing OCP clusters onto new clusters.

Experience with configuring Container Registries

Assisting with troubleshooting and resolution of problems within OCP infrastructure

Ability to create and maintain network diagrams and design documents

Excellent problem-solving and customer service skills

Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals

Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly both written and orally, and present products and ideas in a business-like manner.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Provide OpenShift Support

Responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance, hardening and monitoring of physical & virtual RHEL servers.

Review customer designs and documentation specific to Red Hat technologies, and providing recommendations for improvement based on Red Hat best practices

Performing system diagnosis and troubleshooting of Red Hat technology related issues

Coordinating Kernel/Patch Upgrades and helping with related strategies

Assist customer to build-out the Red Hat lab environment to mirror the environment currently being utilized

Work with customer to update existing processes and procedures to allow a more methodical implementation of the OCP

Providing validation of the OCP cluster environment using steps provided in the OCP documentation

Helping Customer define replication behavior for targeted workloads

Refine and update migration plans to transition applications from existing OCP clusters onto new clusters

Assist with configuring an appropriate Container Registry

Assist with configuring OCP to utilize provided storage

Providing recommendations to address Customer's security requirements

Assist with troubleshooting and resolution of problems within OCP infrastructure

Support of current, and future-state architecture planning efforts associated with Red Hat products currently being leveraged

Thanks & Regards,

Arvind Subramanian