2 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom +4 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical customer engagements for Red Hat Lightwell as the technical lead for trusted software supply chain solutions.
- Present technical and business-value conversations to developers, build engineers, engineering leadership, and security and compliance stakeholders.
- Configure, execute, and troubleshoot customer builds using Lightwell repositories alongside customer engineers.
- Demonstrate dependency management, artifact signing, attestation, SBOM generation, pipeline policy enforcement, runtime security, and related capabilities.
- Facilitate technical deep dives, proofs of concept, bake-offs, sprints, hackathons, and partner-specific solution development.
- Advise on artifact management, repository mirroring, pipeline integration, disconnected environments, and air-gapped delivery.
- Collaborate with Lightwell engineering and business teams to provide product feedback, ecosystem requests, competitive intelligence, testing, documentation, and demonstrations.
- Support customer advocacy, conference speaking, blog posts, community outreach, and enablement of the Red Hat Technical Sales community.
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 builds.
- Working command of at least two of Maven, pip, and npm, including dependency resolution, transitive dependencies, lockfiles, and version constraints.
- Experience with enterprise artifact repositories, internal mirrors, registry and repository configuration, build reproducibility, disconnected delivery, air-gapped environments, and multi-language codebases.
- Understanding 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, leading business-value sessions, communicating with engineering and executive audiences, and participating in public speaking.
- Willingness to travel as needed for business and customer needs.
- Preferred: sales engineering or technical sales experience, preferably in enterprise software, SaaS, or systems integration.
- Preferred: professional software development in Java or Python ecosystems, including dependency management and release responsibility.
- Preferred: ownership of enterprise-scale CI/CD systems, artifact repositories, or internal developer platforms; DevSecOps and application or product security experience.
- Preferred: participation in upstream open source projects, especially packaging, release engineering, or maintenance.
- Preferred: foundational knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and Ansible Automation Platform, plus relevant compliance regimes and control automation.
Benefits
- Flexible work environments ranging from in-office and office-flex to fully remote, depending on role requirements.
- Travel as needed to meet business and customer needs.
- Red Hat provides an open and inclusive work environment and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
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.