Senior Openshift Architect - Red Hat's technology stack (UK/Ireland role)

The Red Hat Consulting Services team is looking for a Senior Architect to join us in our UK&I team. This role is open to candidates from either the United Kingdom or Ireland. In this role, you will lead the design and development of container infrastructure solutions across our Platform portfolio. You'll 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 Hat's technology. As a Senior Architect, you will gain understanding of customer infrastructures and business issues and make recommendations appropriate to their environments. You will apply well-developed consulting, business and process expertise in your work and coach/mentor others whilst building good customer relationships. This is a great opportunity to build on your core base of knowledge and work in a fast-paced environment promoting Red Hat's solutions.

Red Hat Consulting offers more than just technical expertise. We're 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, you'll 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

Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for our customers comprising of both technical and non-technical teams - shaping and influencing customer use cases and architectural design decisions

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

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 don't 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. 

Bachelor's 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 building and supporting Kubernetes-based platforms, management, applications, and tooling. Experience of on premise and self hosted cloud preferred.

Familiarity with modern infrastructure deployment, infrastructure as code and GitOps technologies.

Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and guide customer interactions

Knowledge of one or more of Red Hat's 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 K8s / 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 

As part of our initiative for exploring different work life balance needs, we are willing to consider candidates who are looking to work between 80 - 100% of the time

Willingness to travel according to project needs, following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines (working in a hybrid fashion, with typically around 2 days onsite per week, but can vary) 

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