The Red Hat Consulting Services team is looking for a Cloud Architect to join us in the Netherlands or this role you will work at the customer site as a subject matter expert in Red Hats infrastructure and cloud technology. Youll answer questions about best practices across topics such as reliability scalability maintainability high availability and failover setups as well as lead the on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hats technology. As a Cloud Architect you will gain understanding of customer infrastructures and business issues and make recommendations appropriate to their environments. This is a great opportunity to build on your core base of knowledge and work in a fast-paced environment promoting Red Hats solutions.
Red Hat Consulting offers more than just technical expertise. Were strategic advisers who take a big picture view of our customers organizations understand their challenges and help to overcome them with comprehensive cost-effective solutions. As part of our team youll help customers quickly and strategically achieve value while building enterprise-wide capabilities. Being open is core to our technologies and our consulting approach.
What you will do:
Upskill knowledge in Red Hat technologies using Red Hat University and support from the wider consulting team to apply these concepts to customer needs
Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site addressing technical developmental or strategic IT needs
Manage problem identification system architecture definition software specification and design testing and deployment of open source solutions
Learn about new technologies and apply these concepts to customer needs
Adapt to changing customer requirements
Respond to incidents escalations and exceptions in a professional manner
What you will bring:
We dont expect you to check off all of the below areas to join our team. Instead we prefer to build around your strengths and provide opportunities for you to grow your skills. We can offer a supportive working environment and lots of development opportunities.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field of study or alternatively equivalent work experience and/or industry recognised certifications (particularly RH certifications)
5 years experience working in a consulting role or similar
Experience or knowledge of infrastructure and cloud technologies - e.g. enterprise use of virtualization or containers
Foundational awareness of modern application development practices and the software delivery life cycle
Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and guide customer interactions
Knowledge of one or more of Red Hats infrastructure solutions like Red Hat Satellite Red Hat Virtualization Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or Red Hat Ansible Tower Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat OpenShift would be great - but we would also consider people with K8 / Chef / Puppet experience etc
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification is a plus and/or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification or the willingness to gain this certification in the early stages of your career with Red Hat
Willingness to travel according to project needs
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.
Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hats culture is built on the open source principles of transparency collaboration and inclusion where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized it empowers people from different backgrounds perspectives and experiences to come together to share ideas challenge the status quo and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.
Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
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