Senior Specialist Solution Architect - OpenShift Platform

Job Summary

Red Hat is seeking a Senior Specialist Solution Architect for our OpenShift Platform, based in Amsterdam. This role is pivotal in leveraging containerization, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure technologies to help customers derive business value from their OpenShift environment.

Responsibilities

• Discover and analyze customers' business and technical problems, and design the appropriate Red Hat solution that aligns to their needs.
• Provide technical leadership to Red Hat account teams and customers through sales presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, and proofs of concept.
• Utilize your technical expertise to assist sales teams in answering customer questions.
• Form strategic business and technical relationships within each customer organization to identify new opportunities.
• Own and attain a bookings quota by utilizing your expertise to contribute to the success of our Account Teams in closing sales opportunities.
• Share your expertise by contributing to documentation (e.g., wikis, quick-start guides, blog posts, and white papers), developing reusable assets (e.g., demonstrations, workshops) and presenting at conferences and industry events.

What You Will Bring

• Extensive experience in sales engineering, consulting, IT architecture, or equivalent roles supporting large organizations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Positive team player attitude and strong desire to make our customers successful.
• Ability to understand customers' challenges, requirements, and technical issues and collaborate to address those with the appropriate technologies and solutions.
• Knowledge of Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), or a RHEL derivative, as well as related technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployments in large organizations.
• Knowledge of cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies like Red Hat OpenShift or related products and solutions.
• Familiarity with the design and operation of medium to large-scale enterprise and cloud infrastructures, databases, and application systems with high-availability requirements.

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 have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. 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. Opportunities are open. Join us.

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