Architect, OpenShift Infrastructure and… at Red Hat · Ohio

Architect, OpenShift Infrastructure and Virtualization Location: Remote US OH About the role: The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Virtualization and Infrastructure Architect to join us. In this role, you will design and guide implementations of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure projects to include container and virtualization technologies. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential. This is a remote based job that can be located anywhere in the United States, within close proximity to an airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business with the United States. At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Specialize in the design and development of automated container platforms, deployment pipelines, and cloud-ready application architectures. What you will do: Deliver successful discovery, analysis and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence the customer’s use cases and architecture design decisions. Scope delivery projects and guiding customers through successful pilot and production deployments. Design, create and delivery of content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell (pre-sales), service (consulting) and support (GSS) our cloud solutions at scale. Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk. Learn new technologies quickly, including container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, cloud storage, and software-defined networks Travel frequently (30-40 weeks per year) to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional customers. What you will bring: Experience in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements 4+ years of experience in a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect or Architect consulting delivery role 2+ years focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures. Broad and deep experience across the following technologies: Red Hat Openshift, Red Hat Virtualization, RHEL, Ansible and Artificial Intelligence. Background in customer engagement with either a major consulting services organization, or within a services division of a major software company Experience across one or more vertical industry areas Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives, including extensive experience presenting to higher level  executives at large firms Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills Willingness to travel to customer locations up to 30-40 weeks per year as needed Desired Skills: Experience implementing a CI/CD pipeline Deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies (e.g. OpenStack, RHEV, VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with the Open Source communities via Email and IRC Experience working in a QA role or working with ticketing systems or bug tracking tools is preferred Familiarity with security fundamentals at the infrastructure (including cloud/hypervisor) and operating system level. After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies and related DevOps and GitOps topics. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role: At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following: Understanding of how to build production-ready container and virtualization platforms, integrated with existing enterprise systems Knowledge of how to deploy source code into running, scalable containers and virtual machines in automated fashion at enterprise scale Practical experience with our offerings Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following: Successful, collaborative delivery of customer requirements using Red Hat OpenShift Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies Understanding of how Red Hat’s technologies can transform software delivery (DevOps/GitOps) practices at large organizations Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following: Successfully implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments Helping other consultants learn DevOps/GitOps paired with container technologies Contributing lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice Applying new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies to container platforms The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications. Pay Transparency Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. About Red Hat Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterpriseopen source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Benefits ●    Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage ●    Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care ●    Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan ●    Retirement 401(k) with employer match ●    Paid time off and holidays ●    Paid parental leave plans for all new parents ●    Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave ●    Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 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