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Global Specialist Solution Architect - Lightwell

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12 hours ago
Sydney, Australia +2 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical customer engagements for Red Hat Lightwell in partnership with Account Solution Architects and Account Executives.
  • Present and defend Red Hat’s software supply chain value proposition to developers, engineering leaders, and security and compliance stakeholders.
  • Configure, execute, and troubleshoot customer builds using Lightwell repositories alongside customer engineers.
  • Deliver technical workshops, deep dives, proofs of concept, bake-offs, hackathons, and implementation guidance.
  • Advise on artifact management, repository mirroring, pipeline integration, disconnected environments, and air-gapped delivery.
  • Demonstrate capabilities including hardened container images, artifact signing, attestation, SBOM generation, pipeline policy enforcement, and runtime security.
  • Provide product feedback, ecosystem requests, coverage gaps, and competitive intelligence to the Lightwell business unit and engineering teams.
  • Conduct community outreach, conference speaking, blog writing, customer advocacy, and enablement for Red Hat Technical Sales teams.

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, including 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 configuration, build reproducibility, disconnected delivery, and multi-language codebases.
  • Understanding of SLSA Level 3, SPDX, CycloneDX, SBOM lifecycle, artifact signing, HSM-backed signing, attestation, build and admission enforcement, VEX, and CSAF.
  • Knowledge of provenance, typosquatting, dependency confusion, vulnerability triage, upstream open source contribution, and remediation practices.
  • Experience delivering technical presentations and business-value sessions to engineering, leadership, and executive audiences.
  • Preferred experience in sales engineering, technical sales, enterprise software, SaaS, systems integration, Java or Python development, CI/CD ownership, artifact repositories, internal developer platforms, DevSecOps, application security, or product security.
  • Preferred foundational knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, compliance regimes, and control automation.
  • Willingness to travel as needed to meet business and customer needs.

Benefits

  • Red Hat supports flexible work environments ranging from in-office and office-flex to fully remote, depending on role requirements.
  • The company provides an inclusive workplace, equal employment opportunity, reasonable accommodations, and an open-source-oriented culture.

Tech Stack

AnsibleJavaKubernetesLinuxMavennpmOpenShiftPython

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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