2 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of complex solutions based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
- Guide customers through virtualization migration assessments, technical discovery sessions, workshops, proofs of concept, pilot deployments, and production deployments.
- Advise customer and internal teams on OpenShift Virtualization, Kubernetes, virtualization modernization, and platform adoption.
- Identify and resolve technical and business challenges related to migrating virtual machines and adopting OpenShift Virtualization.
- Build strategic relationships with senior technical, business, executive, and partner stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, professional services, technology, and sales teams, including providing expert support during presales activities.
- Set strategic direction, develop innovative solutions, and lead strategic internal initiatives for the Services business.
- Mentor and coach architects and technical leaders.
- Create reusable assets, architectural patterns, best practices, whitepapers, webinars, and conference presentations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in a senior technology role such as enterprise architecture, consulting, or sales engineering, focused on large-scale infrastructure solutions and platform adoption.
- Extensive hands-on experience with KVM, VMware vSphere, or libvirt, including application deployment and operations.
- Significant experience deploying Kubernetes and container platforms in large organizations, preferably Red Hat OpenShift.
- Direct practical experience with OpenShift Virtualization and virtual machine migration.
- Deep experience with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, including core components, architecture, and production deployment considerations.
- Deep datacenter experience integrating compute, storage, and networking.
- Knowledge of software-defined networking technologies such as OVN, NSX-T, or Cisco ACI.
- Deep knowledge of Linux operating systems, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux or derivatives, in production enterprise environments.
- Strong communication, presentation, consulting, problem-solving, and customer relationship-building skills.
- Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations.
- Australian citizenship.
- Preferred experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat certifications, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and consulting or professional services at a major software company.
Benefits
- Red Hat supports flexible work environments, including in-office, office-flex, and fully remote arrangements depending on role requirements.
- Red Hat is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- The company promotes an open, inclusive, collaborative culture and encourages contributions from people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.