App Dev Architect

The Red Hat Services team is looking for an App Dev Architect to join us in Riyadh Saudi this role you will focus on the core around the processes necessary to promote the adoption of Red Hat Technologies either through migration or modernization of customer environments. Youll work closely with the Consulting Sales and Presales teams to achieve your goals. You will serve as a customer advocate to architect the right solutions and to ensure that those solutions are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way. Youll be expected to learn our offerings quickly especially Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
As an Architect your tasks will include helping customers to understand their current and desired state of container and cloud-native application adoption. Ultimate success in the role is to help customers reach their desired state through the use of the Red Hat technology and services portfolio. Youll need to have technical software development expertise a passion for open source a thorough understanding of business processes and the ability to identify and create business value across various organizational addition youll need to have a working knowledge of agile project methodologies and DevOps and technologies.

What you will do

• Deliver successful discovery analysis and design workshops for small to medium teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions

• Team with our customers to lead the design and implementation of applications using modern AppDev practices and open source emerging technologies. Here are just a few of the domains we cover:
  - Microservices API management and web-scale architectures
  - DevOps engineering and application delivery
  - Container-based continuous delivery
  - Cloud automation and everything-as-code

• Apply analysis and define modernization strategies from Red Hats Application Services portfolio e.g. Quarkus Fuse KNative Istio 3Scale Keycloak

• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments

• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hats services capabilities promote repeatable customer engagements and lower delivery risk

• Address the customers technical development and strategic IT requirements as the main point of contact for Red Hats professional services

• Use industry practices and Red Hats policies and procedures to solve diverse problems

What you will bring

• 7 years of experience working in an application architect solutions architect enterprise architect or architect consulting delivery role

• Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior IT operations and engineering professionals and business executives

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; extensive experience presenting even to C-level executives

• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams including interaction with the open source communities via email and other communication tools

• Solutions sales experience in an environment with multiple products and services

• Background in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain

• Extensive knowledge of Openshift or other Kubernetes solutions

• Experience running microservices based on container runtime in private public and hybrid clouds

• Experience in application development modernization and enterprise application architecture including microservices

• Experience delivering applications to production in most popular programming languages (Java Python C...)

• Development experience with would be a plus

• Experience with configuring and consuming modern application delivery tools in development and deployment of applications to production

• Good presentation and communication skills in English

• Knowledge of and operational experience with new services methodologies related to next generation application migration and modernization Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or agile and DevOps

• Competence to quickly embrace and understand new technologies; ability to comprehend new information and understand complex topics

• Multiple years of experience focused on application development maintenance and support including supporting infrastructure

• Proven ability to work with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers

• Excellent communication skills in English

• Ability to study and quickly learn and put into practice new topics
  Passion for open source software tooling and automation

• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas is a plus

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds 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. Were 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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