Red Hat/Red Hat Satellite Sr Product Specialist
Location: San Francisco CA
Term: 6 month to FTE
locals Needed
*Position Summary*
This position is for the Senior Linux Server Product Specialist on the IT
UNIX Solutions team and is responsible for product management and solution
design of core IT Linux Server products implemented, including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite and related Linux Server technologies.
*Qualifications*
MINIMUM REQUIRED:
• AA/AS in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or equivalent work
experience
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant IT technical experience
• Minimum of 1 year of experience working directly with Linux Server
technologies
• Strong written and good oral communication, ability to document diagrams
and business cases, and effectively lead collaboration sessions with others
DESIRED:
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or equivalent work
experience
• 6+ years of relevant IT technical experience
• 2+ years of experience working directly with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
server technologies
• Experience working at a Utility Company
• Technical certifications appropriate to the targeted technologies or
equivalent industry recognition.
Example certifications for this position include:
o Red Hat Certified Engineer
o Red Hat Certified Specialist
• Able to lead the development of cost estimates and lead the delivery of
technology solutions
• Great critical thinking, active listening, and analytical skills with
aptitude for tactical solutions that are forward thinking
*Responsibilities*
PRODUCT LIFECYCLE
• Performs product management duties on high profile products or services.
• Under the guidance of the accountable architect, manage the continuous
product lifecycle from research, planning and implementation to retirement.
• Under the guidance of the accountable architect, introduce new innovative
solutions that enhance the existing capabilities of the product(s) or
service(s).
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
with moderate scope and complexity.
• Mentors and trains the support staff and others on the targeted
product(s) or service(s).
IT PRODUCT ANALYSIS
• Collaborate with the accountable architect(s) to contribute to the
strategic vision and understand how it applies to the targeted products or
services.
• Understand the industry’s product positioning, the product’s key
benefits, and the product’s targeted users.
• Partner with the accountable architects(s) to research new market
technologies and contribute to recommendations that are aligned with the
Company’s vision and values.
• Understand the risks (security, reliability, stability) and costs
associated with the company’s use of the product and provide feedback and
mitigating solutions to accountable Architect.
SOLUTION DESIGN
• Be a Subject Matter Expert for the assigned products or services and
demonstrate full technical competence within the areas of computing or
network.
• Understand and analyze a project’s business and technical requirements.
Provide guidance and recommendations for gaps in the requirements.
• Leveraging targeted IT products or services, lead sessions with peers to
translate requirements into a detailed solution design that teams can
leverage to properly deploy and implement.
• Document design specifications, installation instructions, configuration
manuals, procedure manuals, and other system-related information.
• Have an understanding of IT project and planning methodologies.
• Be able to provide accurate project timelines, labor and materials cost
estimates to the project for assigned products or services.
• Be able to verify stability, interoperability, portability, security, or
scalability of system architecture.
• Have the ability to manage multiple assigned projects.
CAPACITY PLANNING
• Manage the enterprise wide technical capacity for targeted IT products or
services.
• Work with projects to determine the best use of existing technology
capacity for resource allocation.
• Partner with accountable architect and other key stakeholders to
determine and understand future technology capacity.
• Analyze areas of opportunities to optimize costs of IT products or
services.
•Engage with the product’s vendor to manage the process to request
additional units including working with projects needing new product
contracts and licenses.
• Perform contract management and be responsible for understanding and
complying with the product’s existing maintenance contracts and/or licenses.
SUPPORT
• Work closely with IT professionals to troubleshoot and resolve complex
operational issues.
• Drive conventions and standards (such as usage or configuration) across
products to maximize user experience.
• Be a third-tier support specialist to other IT professionals for
escalated operational issues.
• Escalate root cause problems that require significant change to
accountable architect.
VENDOR TECHNICAL LIAISON
• Participate in business, technical, and contract negotiations with
vendors.
• Act as a conduit for vendor relationship, licensing, and incident
management.
• An advocate for business unit and IT operational clients to ensure
business requirements are cost effective and needs are met.
• Provide budget support to IT professionals and stakeholders.
DOCUMENTATION
• Contributes to a variety of documentation such as strategies, plans,
designs, usage or configuration standards, policies, guidelines, user
requirements, roadmaps, reports, metrics, process manuals, configuration
manuals, and other documentation specific and necessary for the targeted
product or service.
*Kuldeep Yadav {KD}*
*Recruiter - Lead*
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