Deliver pre-sales discovery sessions and post-sales detailed design workshops as part of providing customers with business-driven solutions
Shape and inspire customer architectural design decisions and roadmaps
Play a technical governance role in project delivery
Collaborate with the Support and Engineering teams to ensure customer success and effectively manage technical risk
Contribute to the development and enhancement of repeatable methods, frameworks, and tools to bring greater efficiency and effectiveness to Red Hat Services
Provide leadership and guidance to less senior Red Hat consultants and a presales solutions architects, enabling them to be more effective and capable at large-scale design and architecture activities
Guide the adoption of Red Hat\xe2\x80\x99s cloud solutions and services
Demonstrate creative thinking through the development of informative whitepapers, blog posts, industry events, and webinars
What you will bring
Experience designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technological field
15+ years of experience serving in a solutions architect, enterprise architect, or a consultant role related to the delivery of cloud solutions
5+ years of experience focused on cloud solutions like OpenShift or Kubernetes, cloud-native applications development, and agile methodology
Background in customer engagement with either a major consulting services organization, or within a services division of a major software company
Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior IT and business executives
Broad and deep experience across technologies including Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Puppet, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Working knowledge of cloud architectures, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and their supporting infrastructures
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior business and technology leaders
Proven ability to work seamlessly with teams spread out across multiple departments and regions
Balance of strategic and tactical skills with a capacity for innovative thinking
Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation
Willingness to travel, following Red Hat\xe2\x80\x99s COVID-19 guidelines