RH Enterprise Linux 10 RHEL Consultant - Remote

Kforce's client in Raleigh, NC is seeking a RHEL Engineer to provide technical expertise and advisory services supporting a leading financial services customer with the deployment, hardening, and operations of RHEL10 from previous RHEL versions. In this role, you will lead the strategy, automation, and execution of RHEL in-place upgrades, ensuring a standardized, repeatable, and scalable transition for an enterprise environment. You will act as the technical lead, bridging the gap between current state architecture and a modern, automated upgrade workflow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points
• Assist the Customer with designing and documenting future state upgrade processes
• Orchestrate and communicate the in-place upgrade plan to relevant stakeholders
• Develop and refine automation playbooks for snapshot, upgrade, rollback, and upgrade commit tasks
• Add RHEL IPU (In-place Upgrade) Job Templates to AAP
• Execute the upgrade workflow and troubleshoot alongside Engineering teams
• Refine automation processes to support diverse system types across the infrastructure
• Develop procedures to validate application hosts before and after the in-place upgrade process
• Create and maintain a standard RHEL upgrade workflow (pre-analysis, remediation, snapshot, validation, rollback, and commit)
• Build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process for internal release
• Facilitate workshops to fill technical knowledge gaps and capture upgrade dependencies
• Identify beta users and test/validate the upgrade process at scale
• Provide weekly status reports to the Project Manager to ensure transparency on project status, risks, and decision-making