**Job Summary** The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a **Senior Consultant and Storage Expert** to join us in Israel. In this role, you will be the subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and managing resilient, high-performance, software-defined storage solutions. Your primary focus will be on **Red Hat Ceph** and **Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)** . You'll lead the hands-on, on-site implementation of Red Hat's storage portfolio, deeply integrating it with container platforms like Red Hat OpenShift and automating its lifecycle with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. You'll play a pivotal role in modernizing our customers' enterprise data strategies, ensuring our storage solutions are practical, robust, and scalable. You'll work to gain a deep understanding of customer data infrastructure and business drivers, making strategic recommendations to resolve their most critical data storage, protection, and management challenges. As a Senior Storage Consultant, you will empower customers to build a unified and scalable data foundation for their cloud-native and traditional enterprise applications. **What You Will Do** + Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, architectural, and strategic requirements related to **software-defined storage (SDS) and data management** . + Understand industry best practices for storage architecture, data protection, and disaster recovery, and align them with Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values. + Demonstrate expert judgment in selecting the best methods and Ceph-based architectures to meet customer workload and performance requirements. + Lead the implementation and integration of Red Hat's storage solutions, primarily **Red Hat Ceph Storage** and **Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation** . + Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals, providing specific guidance on storage deployment and consumption. + Develop comprehensive project documentation, including architectural diagrams, configuration details, and operational runbooks for storage environments. + Mentor and share your deep knowledge of Ceph and modern storage principles with customers and internal teams. + Define and promote automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the storage life cycle, including cluster deployment, expansion, monitoring, and day-2 operations. + Lead efforts in **storage performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting** complex issues within large-scale Ceph clusters. **What You Will Bring** + **4+ years of hands-on experience and advanced knowledge of Red Hat Ceph, including a deep understanding of its core components (RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS) and architecture.** + Proven experience in designing and implementing large-scale, software-defined storage solutions, particularly for cloud-native and virtualized environments. + Advanced knowledge of **Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)** or its upstream equivalent, Rook. + Solid experience with Red Hat OpenShift or underlying components like Kubernetes, including how stateful applications consume persistent storage. + Deep knowledge of **Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)** , especially in the context of tuning and managing storage nodes. + Ability to communicate value, progress, and metrics of complex storage projects to required stakeholders in both technical and business audiences. + Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new ideas into practice. + Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation. + Good communication skills, verbal and written, in English and Hebrew. + Availability to travel up to 10% of the time. + Security Classification will be a plus. **Other Skills That Will Be Considered a Plus** + **Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ceph Storage Administration** or similar certifications. + Experience with data migration methodologies and tools for moving data to Ceph-based platforms. + Working experience with DevOps and agile processes. + Experience using public cloud storage technologies and providers like Amazon S3/EBS or Azure Blob/Disk. + Experience with other storage protocols (e.g., NFS, iSCSI) and enterprise storage arrays. \#LI-AM4 **About Red Hat** Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/) is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source) software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. 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