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Base Salary
$130k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver strategic enterprise AI solutions through technical leadership, hands-on implementation, and customer enablement.
- Lead model selection, optimization, serving, inference-cost benchmarking, and decisions about prompting, grounding, or tuning.
- Design portable inference across cloud APIs, on-premises clusters, and sovereign environments.
- Create evaluation-driven release gates, retrieval and context architectures, and permission-aware knowledge ingestion.
- Lead sovereign and disconnected Red Hat AI deployments on OpenShift, including provenance, signing, AI bills of materials, and compliance evidence.
- Design and stand up Models-as-a-Service and GPU-as-a-Service with multi-tenancy, gateways, metering, showback, chargeback, and self-service accelerator access.
- Build agentic infrastructure operations using Ansible Automation Platform, including patching, remediation, upgrades, supply-chain attestation, and audited actions.
- Own engagement architecture and delivery plans, establish measurable success criteria, and certify customer engineers.
- Create reusable runbooks, reference architectures, harnesses, and recipes, and provide evidence-based feedback to Red Hat engineering.
- Represent Red Hat enterprise AI capabilities to CTOs, platform leaders, and FinOps teams while supporting sellers with technical scoping.
- Travel weekly, generally Monday through Thursday, to customer locations throughout North America.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, including at least 5 years as a hands-on architect or senior consultant delivering in customer environments.
- Active Top Secret Clearance, specified as TS/SCI with CI Poly, and residence in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
- Deep current OpenShift expertise covering cluster architecture, GitOps, multi-cluster management, security, observability, and GPU-enabled nodes.
- Red Hat Certified Architect or equivalent demonstrated depth.
- Production experience with Red Hat AI or upstream technologies, including OpenShift AI, vLLM, KServe model serving, model registries and pipelines, and at least one of llm-d, LLM Compressor, or Eval Hub.
- Working knowledge of enterprise generative AI, including inference economics, model selection and optimization, RAG, evaluation, agent frameworks, MCP, governance, and cost pressures.
- Application development fluency on Kubernetes, containers, APIs, CI/CD, and trusted software supply chains, using at least one of Python, Go, or Java.
- Automation experience with Ansible Automation Platform, including event-driven automation, or an equivalent transferable platform.
- Demonstrated record of leading customer engagements to measurable outcomes and enabling customer teams to operate the resulting systems.
- Clear technical and executive communication skills and the ability to establish and report against success metrics.
- Preferred experience includes production agent development, tool calling, agent identity and delegation, sandboxed execution, observability, evaluation, and contributions to MCP, A2A, Llama Stack, LangGraph, or Kagenti.
- Preferred experience includes Models-as-a-Service or GPU-as-a-Service platforms, Kueue or Run:ai scheduling, AI FinOps, sovereign or regulated deployments, EU AI Act obligations, model customization, synthetic data, open source contributions, and forward-deployed or residency work.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a Health Savings Account.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid time off and holidays, paid parental leave, disability leave, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and other benefits.
- Full-time permanent U.S. associates may receive the listed benefits.
- The role requires on-site client work and regular weekly travel, generally Monday through Thursday, throughout North America.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions 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.