Proven experience with RHEL deployment, hardening, and operations.
Strong proficiency in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and building automation workflows.
Hands-on experience with Leapp for RHEL in-place upgrades.
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.
Strategy & Architecture Design:
Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points.
Assist the Customer with designing and documenting future state upgrade processes.
Automation & Execution:
Orchestrate and communicate the in-place upgrade plan to relevant stakeholders.
Develop and refine automation playbooks for snapshot, upgrade, rollback, and upgrade commit tasks.
Add RHEL IPU (In-place Upgrade) Job Templates to AAP.
Execute the upgrade workflow and troubleshoot alongside Red Hat Engineering teams.
Refine automation processes to support diverse system types across the infrastructure.
Validation & Documentation:Develop procedures to validate application hosts before and after the in-place upgrade process.
Create and maintain a standard RHEL upgrade workflow (pre-analysis, remediation, snapshot, validation, rollback, and commit).
Build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process for internal release.
Technical Oversight & Facilitation: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.
RH Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) Sr. Consultant
EMEA based hours (6pm - 1am EST)
Role Details:
Start Date: Tentatively - August 24th, 2026
This role requires a background check, fingerprinting and onboarding process.
Duration: 1 Year
We are seeking a RHEL Engineer to provide technical expertise and advisory services supporting a leading financial services customer with the deployment, hardening, and operations of RHEL10 from previous RHEL versions. In this role, you will lead the strategy, automation, and execution of RHEL in-place upgrades, ensuring a standardized, repeatable, and scalable transition for an enterprise environment. You will act as the technical lead, bridging the gap between current state architecture and a modern, automated upgrade workflow.