About the role
Job Summary
The Red Hat Consulting team seeks a Senior Consultant focused on Red Hat Cloud Products to join us in Rome, Milan or Remote in Italy. In this role, you will specialize in delivering infrastructure and AI orchestration services on top of the OpenShift platform. You'll lead the implementation of Red Hat's technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat AI 3.5, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (including Automation Orchestrator), and Project Lightwell. You'll play a key role in guiding enterprise customers through modern hybrid cloud architectures, automated vulnerability remediation, and Agentic AI workflows. You'll work to gain an understanding of customer infrastructure and business needs, make strategic recommendations, and deliver secure, verifiable solutions.
What you will do
* Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, development, or strategic IT requirements * Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values * Demonstrate good judgment in selecting the better methods to obtain solutions * Implement and integrate Red Hat's open hybrid cloud and AI solutions, including Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat AI 3.5, and Project Lightwell security integrations * Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals * Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including ticket or bug management * Mentor and share your knowledge with customers * Define and promote the adoption of automation techniques, Ansible Automation Orchestrator, automated vulnerability remediation, and Agentic AI workflows to improve cloud security and operational efficiency * Implement solutions using cloud technologies, design principles, integration points, and automation methods
What you will bring
* 5+ years of experience working directly with enterprise stakeholders on infrastructural projects * 2+ years of experience with advanced knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift * Enterprise AI model serving and orchestration * 2+ years of experience in IT automation (e.g. Ansible, puppet etc.) * Deep knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) * Good written and verbal communication skills in particular technical documentation * Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new ideas into practice * Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation * Good communication skills in English and Italian * Availability to travel up to 20%
Skills that will be considered a plus :
* Vmware experience * Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification * Experience with GenAI in Containerized Environment (I.E. Inference Server, vLLM, llmd) * Experience using public cloud technologies and providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure * Experience of Gitops ( with tools like Agocd, RHACM, Helm, git and Kustomize)
Pay Transparency
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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