Senior Consultants / Consultants - OpenShift

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for OpenShift Senior Consultants/Consultants to join us in Canberra, Australia. In this role, you will guide the on-site delivery and implementation of innovative Red Hat technology. You will focus on delivering quality work resulting in a positive customer experience, while building broad and deep technical expertise in one or more Red Hat technologies. As a Consultant, you'll gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructure and business needs with a particular focus on the OpenShift Platform and make recommendations appropriate to their workplace. You will be a key driver in implementing enterprise-scale container solutions for our customers. Your work will have a direct and measurable impact, helping our customers build resilient, scalable, and secure application platforms.

Key responsibilities

Lead Red Hat Consulting engagements end to end, owning the full lifecycle from discovery and architecture through implementation to handover.

Serve as a subject matter expert for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) at the client site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs

Implement sophisticated OpenShift solutions that integrate with a customer's existing infrastructure, including networking, storage, security, and identity management

Implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to automate application delivery and ensure a consistent, repeatable deployment process

Constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customer needs

Produce quality results and provide support to more than one project in multiple industries and various types of projects

Keep stakeholders updated on actual or potential issues that may affect project or company performance





Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, and software specification, as well as the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions

Provide written project documentation that can be distributed within Red Hat and the client management team

Adapt to changing customer requirements

About you

8+ years in technical consulting, professional services, or platform architecture, including 3+ years running Kubernetes or OpenShift in production.

Deep hands‑on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, covering installation, configuration, and day‑2 operations.

Strong Kubernetes fundamentals, including workload and networking primitives, RBAC, and the operator pattern.

Experience with enterprise‑wide deployments

Advanced knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Deep hands‑on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), or Open Source equivalents, including installation, configuration, and day‑2 operations

Experience with DevOps and GitOps practices and related tools (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton)

Demonstrated experience communicating value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders and diverse audiences

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Exceptional analytical, problem‑solving, project management, and planning skills

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or willingness to pursue certification within 90 days

Must be an Australian citizen, Australian government security clearance at NV1/NV2 or above

This role is based in Canberra and will require onsite delivery.

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📌 Senior Consultants / Consultants - OpenShift (Canberra)
🏢 Red Hat
📍 Canberra