Software Principal Engineer-RedHat OpenShift

Software Principal Engineer

Today, every organization needs to be digital, powered by data, running in a multi-cloud world, ready to take on anything. Our Consulting team assesses customer’s strategic, organizational and business challenges and uses in-depth industry knowledge to offer technical solutions that apply to future business environment and operational objectives to help our Dell Technologies customers gain market share and increase efficiency.

Join us as a Software Principal Engineer on our Dell Technologies Consulting team in Bangalore to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

What you’ll achieve

As a Software Principal Engineer, you will be architecting and leading complex projects, contributing to Intellectual Property (IP) and Offer development activities, facilitate “current state / future state” multi-discipline workshops, participates in strategic planning with the Dell Account Teams and Customer project teams, develop solution vision and scope for customer initiatives, work with Customers to troubleshoot and resolve deployment and integration challenges, coach and develop junior consultants while providing oversight on multiple projects.

You will:

• Contribute to the development of customer cloud and virtualization strategies, while facilitating design discussion around proposed architecture, be responsible for serving as a project lead, drive high quality delivery experience for customers including excellent documentation, oral and presentation skills.
• Understand the customers strategic goals, business, and technology challenges quickly and guide the customer to adopt modern cloud and virtualization solutions.
• Lead the design and implementation of tailored OpenShift and OpenStack solutions, overseeing the end-to-end deployment of Red Hat technologies within these environments and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and applications.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex issues related to OpenShift and OpenStack, conducting root cause analysis, implementing corrective actions, and delivering continuous support to uphold the stability and performance of these environments.
• Assist organizations in establishing near term goals and prioritize milestones for their cloud and virtualization program. Factoring in the people, process, and technology aspects of the proposed architecture solution

Take the first step towards your dream career

Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

• 8-10 years of professional experience in customer facing IT roles with a bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience, 5+ years of experience performing client facing assessments, designs and advanced Day 2 RedHat configuration of cloud platforms, software-defined storage/networks, container platforms, disaster recovery, monitoring, orchestration, microservices, and virtualization
• Proficient in RedHat Enterprise Linux, RedHat OpenShift, RedHat OpenStack and RedHat Ansible Automation, coupled with robust problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Deployment and integration experience across one (1) Hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform) or one Hosting Provider (e.g., Rackspace)
• Experience with at least one (1) additional hypervisor platform (VMware or Azure Stack HCI/Hyper-V)
• Advanced knowledge of performing architecture reviews of replatforming from one (1) Hypervisor platform to a Red Hat Platform and/or repatriating from one (1) Hyperscaler to an on-premises RedHat Platform

Desirable Requirements

• Professional Certifications: Must Have (RHCSA) preferred (RHCSE or RHCSE in OpenStack)
• Passion for being a true “consultant”, driving change and transformation.

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That’s why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we’re looking for you.

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.

Application closing date: 15th May 2025

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