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Specialist Solution Architect, Cloud Services

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Responsibilities

  • Partner with account teams and Customer Success to identify customer use cases, challenges, and blockers to Managed OpenShift adoption.
  • Remove organizational, competitive, and technical blockers to enterprise-wide Managed OpenShift adoption and consumption.
  • Define customer-approved, enterprise-ready Managed OpenShift architectures and contribute to Success Planning.
  • Design and execute tailored solutions that address customer adoption blockers.
  • Provide technical guidance and recommendations based on customer business and technical requirements.
  • Provide product feedback to Managed OpenShift Product and SRE teams.
  • Demonstrate consultative selling skills by designing and proposing solutions with business acumen.
  • Build relationships with customer champions and advocate for Cloud Services within customer organizations and Red Hat.
  • Facilitate pre- and post-sales technical deep dives, proofs of concept, workshops, and enablement events.
  • Share knowledge and findings with team members.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a sales engineer, consultant, IT architect, or in an equivalent customer-facing technical role within enterprise accounts.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and their native service ecosystems.
  • Hands-on experience with Red Hat managed cloud services, including ROSA and ARO, and solid knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift.
  • Product knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
  • Consultative selling skills and the ability to design and propose solutions with business acumen.
  • Experience developing relationships at engineering, commercial, and executive levels in large enterprise IT organizations.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
  • Broad understanding of the application lifecycle from development to operations, including containers, container management and security, and CI/CD tooling.
  • Willingness to travel as required.
  • Relevant mid-level Red Hat certifications are preferred, including RHCSDSM, RHCSDAAAP, RHCSOAD, or RHCSOIA.
  • Public cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert are preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Account for healthcare and dependent care.
  • Health Savings Account with a high-deductible medical plan.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Paid time off and holidays.
  • Paid parental leave for all new parents.
  • 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 for eligible full-time U.S. associates.
  • Work environments may range from in-office and office-flex to fully remote depending on role requirements.
  • Travel may be required to support account teams and customer engagements.

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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