Consultant - Appdev

Job Summary:

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 Seoul, Korea. 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 South Korea.

Primary responsibilities:

• Able to design and deliver a standard solution implementation alone
• Co-leads delivery for one product in a standard project
• Contributes to architectural design translation and takes full ownership for individual tasks in a complex project
• Assists in project planning and drives the team towards the goals that project leadership has put in place
• Plays a key role in managing customer expectations
• Can adapt their individual project tasks as customer environment issues come up
• Can clearly articulate customer benefits of Red Hat technologies, services, and products Trusted advisor to technical Red Hat and customer resources
• Identifies future opportunities for other Red Hat products/services for their customers and alerts sales team
• Actively guides consultants and associate consultants on their teams and provides feedback about their performance
• Recognizes leadership opportunities on their own and is willing to take them on
• Can confidently discuss the decisions of the team with leadership
• Handles crucial one-on-one conversations with tact and facilitates positive resolutions
• Able to explain their technical knowledge to non-technical audiences
• Capable of presenting to customers, general public, or internal audiences in their area of expertise
• Maintains Red Hat messaging in all communications
• Has a few certifications related to their area of expertise(not limited to Red Hat certifications) Actively consumes Red Hat advanced level training content (and/or pursues technical learning related to their projects)
• Keeps up to date on new Red Hat training as it is updated
• Embraces growth mindset in alignment with their yearly technical goals
• Experience deploying and serving LLMs (e.g., vLLM, KServe) with GPU infrastructure on OpenShift AI or Kubernetes

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience with and advanced knowledge of middleware technologies, including enterprise web or middleware development project experience with application integration using products such as Fuse, AMQ, 3Scale on Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes
• 5+ 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 such as Quarkus/ Spring boot.
• Knowledge of DevOps or continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) technologies like Service Mesh, ARGO and Tekton CD
• Understanding of automation and scripting tools like Puppet or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Preferred: Hands-on experience building RAG or AI agent applications (e.g., MCP)
• Willingness to travel up to 100% of the time to customer locations throughout South Korea. 
• Fluent English or Japanese is preferred.

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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