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Responsibilities
- Deploy as Red Hat’s technical lead for trusted software supply-chain engagements and partner with Account Solution Architects and Account Executives to drive Lightwell adoption.
- Lead technical discussions with developers, build and platform engineers, application leadership, and security and compliance stakeholders.
- Configure, execute, and troubleshoot customer builds using Lightwell repositories alongside customer engineers.
- Conduct technical deep dives, proofs of concept, bake-offs, internal sprints, hackathons, workshops, and business-value sessions.
- Advise on artifact management, mirroring, pipeline integration, disconnected environments, and air-gapped delivery.
- Demonstrate hardened container images, artifact signing, attestation, SBOM generation, pipeline policy enforcement, and runtime security.
- Provide product feedback, ecosystem requests, competitive intelligence, documentation, and feature-testing support to the Lightwell business unit and engineering teams.
- Support customer advocacy, conference speaking, blog posts, partner solutions, and enablement and mentoring for Red Hat Technical Sales.
Requirements
- 6+ years of combined experience in software engineering, build/release engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or technical sales, including responsibility for software with dependency and upgrade obligations.
- Hands-on experience working in customer or production build environments and configuring, executing, and troubleshooting enterprise builds.
- Working command of at least two of Maven, pip, and npm, including dependency resolution, transitive dependencies, lockfiles, and version constraints.
- Understanding of enterprise build configuration, registry and repository settings, package proxies and mirrors, reproducible builds, disconnected delivery, and multi-language codebases.
- Knowledge of SLSA Level 3, SBOM formats and lifecycle including SPDX and CycloneDX, artifact signing and verification, HSM-backed signing, attestation, build and admission enforcement, VEX, CSAF, provenance, typosquatting, and dependency confusion.
- Experience delivering technical presentations and business-value sessions, communicating with engineering audiences and executives, and representing product coverage and roadmaps accurately.
- Willingness to travel as needed for customers and business requirements.
- Preferred: sales engineering or technical sales experience at an enterprise software company, SaaS company, or systems integrator.
- Preferred: professional software development in Java or Python ecosystems, ownership of CI/CD systems, artifact repositories, or internal developer platforms, and enterprise-scale DevSecOps experience.
- Preferred: application or product security experience, upstream open source participation, familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, relevant compliance regimes, and control automation.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, and 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid time off, holidays, parental leave, disability leave, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and other benefits.
- Full-time permanent U.S. associates are eligible for the listed benefits; work environments may range from in-office and office-flex to fully remote depending on role requirements.
- Travel is required as needed to meet customer and business needs.
About Red Hat
Red Hat builds enterprise open-source software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift for Kubernetes, and Ansible automation, sold via subscriptions with support, training, and consulting. It serves large enterprises and public-sector organizations running hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure and modern application platforms. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat operates as an independent subsidiary of IBM.