Principal Automation Consultant (Ansible/OpenShift)

About the role

Manpower is recruiting a Principal Automation Consultant in Singapore who will work on Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift projects. The consultant acts as a trusted advisor to Red Hat and its customers, helping shape architecture decisions and delivering automation and platform engineering solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Implement and manage Ansible with a deep understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, container orchestration and automation at scale.
• Deliver discovery, analysis and design workshops that influence the customer's architecture decisions and align with the Red Hat solution.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Red Hat and customer resources, considering customer culture and organisation in design and delivery.
• Define best practices for deployment, platform hardening, observability, monitoring and alerting, capacity management, scalability, resiliency and security operations.
• Accelerate collaboration across stakeholders and teams, mentor junior consultants and customer engineers, and contribute to Red Hat's internal methodologies, playbooks, reference architectures and shared consulting assets.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, platform engineering and open source trends and incorporate them into customer solutions.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in a consulting or resident engineer role.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects, coordinate cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality results.
• Customer-facing skills, including presenting to customers and leading customer interactions.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with technical and business audiences.
• Engagement in open source communities or a contributor background.

Required skills

• Advanced hands-on knowledge of the Red Hat Ansible platform and playbook development, with proven expertise in operationalising it.
• Infrastructure as code, automation tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes.
• Red Hat certifications in Automation.