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Global Specialist Solution Architect - Lightwell

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Responsibilities

  • Lead customer engagements as Red Hat’s technical lead for trusted software supply chain adoption.
  • Deliver technical conversations, architecture walkthroughs, business-value sessions, workshops, proofs of concept, bake-offs, sprints, and hackathons.
  • Configure, execute, and troubleshoot customer builds using Red Hat Lightwell repositories alongside customer engineers.
  • Advise on artifact management, mirroring, pipelines, disconnected environments, and air-gapped environments.
  • Position hardened container images, artifact signing, attestation, SBOM generation, pipeline policy enforcement, and runtime security within the Red Hat portfolio.
  • Collaborate with Lightwell engineering, sales, Customer Success, Consulting Services, partners, and customers to improve adoption and product-market feedback.
  • Provide technical enablement and mentoring to the Red Hat Technical Sales community.
  • Participate in conference speaking, blog writing, customer advocacy, and community outreach.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of combined experience in software engineering, build or release engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or technical sales.
  • Hands-on experience working in customer or production build environments with real dependency and upgrade obligations.
  • Working command of at least two of Maven, pip, and npm, including dependency resolution, transitive dependencies, lockfiles, and version constraints.
  • Experience configuring, executing, and troubleshooting enterprise builds, artifact repositories, and internal mirrors.
  • Understanding of build reproducibility, disconnected and air-gapped delivery, and multi-language codebases.
  • Knowledge of SLSA Level 3 build integrity, SBOM lifecycle and formats including SPDX and CycloneDX, artifact signing, verification, attestation, and enforcement.
  • Knowledge of VEX, CSAF, provenance, typosquatting, dependency confusion, and machine-readable exploitability data.
  • Experience delivering technical presentations and leading business-value sessions for engineering, leadership, and executive audiences.
  • Preferred experience as a sales engineer, technical sales professional, or similar role in an enterprise software, SaaS, or systems integrator environment.
  • Preferred professional software development experience in Java or Python ecosystems, including dependency management and release.
  • Preferred ownership of enterprise-scale CI/CD systems, artifact repositories, or internal developer platforms.
  • Preferred DevSecOps, application security, product security, vulnerability management, secure development lifecycle, and upstream open source experience.
  • Preferred foundational knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and Ansible Automation Platform.
  • Willingness to travel as needed for business and customer needs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Paid time off, holidays, and paid parental leave.
  • Disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave benefits.
  • Employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and other benefits.
  • Red Hat supports flexible work environments ranging from in-office to office-flex and fully remote depending on role requirements.

Tech Stack

AnsibleJavaMavennpmOpenShiftPython

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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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.

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