Über diese OpenShift Architect Stelle bei Red Hat
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in Kubernetes platforms and virtualization technologies. In this role, you will act as a trusted technical leader across both pre-sales and delivery, helping customers define and implement their infrastructure transformation journey.
You will engage early in the sales cycle to understand customer needs, shape solutions, and support proposals. During delivery, you will lead the architecture and implementation of OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies.
By leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, hybrid cloud, and automation practices, you will help customers consolidate infrastructure, modernize datacenters, and adopt a unified platform for VMs and containers
What you will do:
Engage in pre-sales activities, including customer discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design
Partner with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, define scope, and build compelling technical proposals
Support RFP/RFI responses and present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders
Assess customer infrastructure environments and propose optimized architectures
Design and implement OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization
Lead migration initiatives from traditional virtualization platforms to OpenShift
Provide technical leadership during delivery, ensuring alignment with architectural best practices
Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, helping define infrastructure and platform roadmaps
Collaborate with Product Engineering, Consulting, and Support teams to deliver high-quality solutions
Drive adoption of automation, DevOps, and infrastructure as code (IaC)
Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reusable assets, and best practice
What you will bring:
8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, consulting, or platform engineering roles
Proven experience in pre-sales or customer-facing roles, supporting complex solution sales cycles
Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms
Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM) and migration strategies
Experience with OpenShift Virtualization or similar approaches to VM modernization
Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute, storage, networking)
Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and IaC practices
Strong communication and presentation skills, including executive-level storytelling
Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and architectures
Fluent in English (written and verbal)
Red Hat certifications are a plus
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open 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.
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