Consultant - Ansible Automation Platform (FSI)

About The Job

The Red Hat Financial Services Consulting team is adding a Consultant with a background in enterprise automation technologies to join us remotely in the U.S, or Canada. In this role, you’ll drive the adoption of Red Hat’s automation solutions at key accounts. You’ll engage both remotely and on-site to build trust with engineering, operations, and development teams by aligning their requirements with the real-world capabilities of our technologies.

This role requires hands-on experience with Ansible by Red Hat and a strong familiarity with tools such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, and other configuration management platforms. A solid grasp of modern DevOps practices and tooling is expected. This position requires regular on-site work with clients across North America, so a willingness to travel to customer locations required and applicants must reside within close proximity to a primary airport.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the design and delivery of complex Ansible automation solutions for Financial Services customers, translating business needs into scalable technical designs
• Provide guidance on effectively leveraging Ansible Automation Platform and related Red Hat offerings
• Act as a trusted technical advisor—helping clients navigate strategic decisions and operational challenges tied to automation
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to a diverse range of audiences, including C-level stakeholders
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customer stakeholders to ensure alignment, satisfaction, and delivery success
• Develop, test, and deploy robust Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections that cover use cases such as infrastructure automation, application deployment, compliance, and security orchestration
• Contribute to the integration of Ansible with key enterprise platforms, including public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization stacks, networking infrastructure, and third-party tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex automation issues across customer environments
• Contribute to Red Hat’s internal knowledge base by creating reusable assets, playbooks, and reference implementations
• Stay up-to-date on AAP advancements, automation ecosystem trends, and emerging enterprise use cases
• Expected to obtain and maintain at least two (2) active Red Hat certifications relevant to your role

After joining Red Hat… You will undergo an intensive customized training program on Red Hat technologies and Customer Success solutions. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following:

• Understanding of how to build technical solutions, integrated with existing enterprise systems, with technical guidance
• Learn technologies and consulting skills to enhance your abilities through enablements designed and taught by Red Hat experts and Red Hat certification
• Gain exposure and collaboration within Red Hat Customer Success & the larger organization through everyday networking and community events

Within 6 months, be ready to deliver a project by attaining the following:

• Collaborate on the successful delivery of customer projects as a technical contributor through expertise on Red Hat’s technologies
• Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies
• Continue expanding your knowledge and network, both internal and external, through enablement, communities, customers, and meetups

Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership by accomplishing the following:

• Successfully implementing complex, enterprise solutions in customer environments as part of the delivery team
• Engage and share with our internal and external communities of practice on lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos

What You Will Bring

• Background in delivering automation-first solutions across enterprise environments, especially cloud and hybrid infrastructure
• Proven success implementing solutions from design through delivery as part of project teams
• Consulting experience, ideally within large-scale transformation or automation-focused initiatives
• Proficiency in scripting and infrastructure-as-code (Python, YAML, Bash)
• Intermediate experience with automation tools, including Ansible (required), plus familiarity with tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, and PowerShell
• Understanding of the business case for automation in complex IT environments
• Experience building or integrating CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms
• Working knowledge of security principles across infrastructure, OS, cloud, and hypervisors
• Comfort working across distributed teams and open-source ecosystems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to speak confidently with technical teams and executive leadership
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and evolving with industry best practices
• Prior experience in the Financial Services industry is a strong plus

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Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

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Benefits
●    Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
●    Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
●    Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
●    Retirement 401(k) with employer match
●    Paid time off and holidays
●    Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
●    Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
●    Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 

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