Application Development Consultant

About The Job

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an Application Development Consultant with significant experience in JEE and modern application design to join us in Mumbai, India. In this role, you will use our unique middleware applications capabilities for DevOps, continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD), container, and cloud-based projects. You'll help make our solutions practical and workable for the businesses of our customers. As an Application Development Consultant, you will lead the on-site design and implementation of Red Hat’s solutions based on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Application Services. You’ll work to gain an understanding of the infrastructure and business needs of our customers, make recommendations that address their challenges, and help them make strategic decisions for the adoption of Red Hat’s technologies. You'll then build enterprise applications and capabilities around cloud technologies to streamline development and allow for continuous feature release of applications. This is a great opportunity if you’re passionate about learning new technologies and expanding your core expertise while traveling to customer sites across India.

What You Will Do
• Become a Red Hat subject matter expert at the customer sites, addressing their architectural, technical, development, and strategic IT requirements
• Use your critical thinking skills and experience to tackle tough problems in innovative ways using modern practices and technologies like containers and container management, APIs and API management, microservices, and hybrid cloud deployment and management
• Define overall system architectures and manage software specification, installation, configuration and design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions
• Serve as a trusted adviser to our customers and assist the project or technical managers in setting and delivering on expectations
• Perform architecture review, code review, and health check on existing applications and their deployment
• Maintain deep understanding of industry practices through project experience, training, and personal research
• Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner, manage resolution of these until they can be handed over to the appropriate team; manage customer expectations during the resolution process
• Contribute your knowledge and experience back into the wider Red Hat community so that other teams and customers can benefit

What You Will Bring
• 10+ years of experience with and advanced knowledge of middleware technologies, including enterprise web or middleware development project experience with application integration, data integration, business rules management, or business process automation; experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker
• 6+ years of experience working directly with enterprise stakeholders and architects on a range of development and deployment projects
• Consulting and people skills
• Experience providing technical leadership to a small team
• Experience defining solutions architectures and designing, implementing, and troubleshooting large-scale workable solutions
• Knowledge of software development methodologies, object-oriented design, and development principles, including enterprise integration and software design patterns
• Understanding of Java frameworks or libraries like Spring, Hibernate, or Struts
• Knowledge of DevOps or continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) technologies like Apache Maven, Jenkins, and Bamboo
• Understanding of automation and scripting tools like Puppet or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time to customer locations throughout India, following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines