[Remote] Principal Consultant RHEL 10

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SPECTRAFORCE is seeking a Principal Consultant for a financial services customer to lead RHEL in-place upgrades and automate operating system security and patching processes. The role includes designing upgrade workflows, developing automation, overseeing execution and troubleshooting, documenting processes, and facilitating technical workshops.

Responsibilities

• Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points
• Assist the Customer with identifying automation opportunities and designing and documenting future state patching / upgrade processes
• Execute RHEL in-place upgrades across RHEL 7, 8, 9 & 10
• Develop automation to improve the speed and reliability of certification and distribution of kernel/OS config snapshots
• Investigating Kpatch and identifying opportunities to use it as an even faster route to deploy in some scenarios
• Develop and refine automation playbooks for snapshot, upgrade, rollback, and patching commit tasks
• Execute the patching / upgrade workflow and troubleshoot alongside Red Hat Engineering teams
• Refine automation processes to support diverse system types across the infrastructure
• Create and maintain a standard RHEL patching / upgrade workflow (pre-analysis, remediation, snapshot, validation, rollback, and commit)
• Build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process for internal release
• Facilitate workshops to fill technical knowledge gaps and capture upgrade dependencies
• Identify beta users and test/validate the upgrade process at scale
• Provide weekly status reports to the Red Hat Project Manager to ensure transparency on project status, risks, and decision-making

Skills

• Proven 15+ years of experience with RHEL deployments, hardening, and operations
• Proven understanding of CI/CD pipelines and engagement experience with automating processes to accelerate deployment timelines
• Strong proficiency in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and building automation workflows
• Understanding of Kpatch and applicable use cases
• Strong proficiency in Shell and Batch scripting
• Ability to facilitate technical workshops and lead architectural decision-making
• Experience in creating technical documentation and knowledge-base assets
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities, including coordination with vendor engineering teams
• Experience in managing technical scope and communicating progress to executive stakeholders

Benefits

• Remote

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