About the Job:
The Red Hat Consulting Services team is looking for a Cloud/Infra Architect to join us remotely in Germany. In this role, you will work at the customer site as a subject matter expert in Red Hat infrastructure and cloud technology. You'll answer questions about best practices around reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups, as well as lead the on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hat’s technology that delivers freedom, flexibility, and outstanding performance. As a Cloud Architect, you will gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructure and business issues and make recommendations appropriate to their environment. This is a great opportunity to build on your core base of knowledge and work in a fast-paced environment promoting Red Hat’s solutions.
What you will do:
Serve as a customer advocate, designing the right solutions and ensuring that they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way
Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and inspire customer use cases and architecture design decisions
Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
Design, create, and deliver content that will enable the broader Red Hat organization to sell, service, and support our cloud and infrastructure solutions at scale
Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat's services capabilities, promote repeated customer engagements, and lower delivery risks
Serve as a subject matter expert and present creative ideas in the community by producing exceptional whitepapers and webinars and by speaking at high-profile industry conferences
What you will bring:
Prior experience working in a consulting role; ability to deliver in one-on-one assignments
Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies on a delivery level
Experience implementing virtualization technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
Experience with infrastructure deployment, particularly with a focus on automation and cloud-ready infrastructure to support application deployment. Familiarity with tools such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is beneficial but not required at an expert level.
Knowledge of one or more Red Hat infrastructure solutions such as Red Hat OpenShift
Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and guide customer interactions
Understanding of the open source community
Excellent problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification is a plus
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, or the ability to get it within a few weeks of the start date, is a plus
Fluency in English and German language Mandatory
Willing to travel with 30-35% within Germany
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