RH Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) Sr. Consultant
Raleigh, NC
Date Posted:13-Jul-2026
Work Type:On-Site
Job Number:491644
Job Description
Title: RH Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) Sr. Consultant
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months
Weekly Hours: 35
EMEA based hours: 6pm - 1am EST
Required Work Hours:
Must be willing to start by 6:00AM EST to overlap with the primary Customer who is located in London.
Description:
This role requires a background check, fingerprinting and onboarding process which typically takes 4-6 weeks. The start date is dependent on completion of these requirements.
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Architecture Design:
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months
Weekly Hours: 35
EMEA based hours: 6pm - 1am EST
Required Work Hours:
Must be willing to start by 6:00AM EST to overlap with the primary Customer who is located in London.
Description:
This role requires a background check, fingerprinting and onboarding process which typically takes 4-6 weeks. The start date is dependent on completion of these requirements.
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Architecture Design:
- Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points.
- Assist the Customer with designing and documenting future state upgrade processes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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