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Role Description

The Red Hat Financial Services Consulting Services team is seeking an Openshift Virtualization Architect. In this role, you will earn the trust and confidence of customers’ engineering, development, and operations teams through in-person and remote interactions by aligning their requirements and use cases to the functional capabilities of our solutions. You'll play a critical role in bringing together cross-functional teams from Red Hat's product, Product Engineering, Support, Professional Services, and Sales teams to meet the needs of our most demanding customers. As an Architect, you will serve as a customer advocate with these organizations to deliver the right solutions and to ensure that these solutions are implemented and supported reliably. This is a remote position with potential travel to customer sites and can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada near an airport. Successful applicants must reside where Red Hat is registered to do business.

• Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals
• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including quality assurance (QA) and ticket and bug management
• Mentor and share knowledge with customers
• Lead the strategy and guide the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time-to-market
• Support the development and review of complex task lists, providing expert guidance on project scoping and ensuring alignment with customer requirements and business objectives
• Design and advocate solutions using cloud technologies, design principles, integration points, and automation methods

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years in a related technology position, e.g., sales, consulting, operations, development, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or Kubernetes
• 3+ years of experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of network functions virtualization (NFV), cloud software-defined networking (SDN) or storage disciplines, and DevOps models and technologies
• Networking technologies including VLANs, routing protocols, IPAM solutions, and Load Balancers (e.g., Infoblox, TCPWave, F5)
• Experience with storage systems like FiberChannel (and/or FCOE), iSCSI, or other Software Defined Storage technologies
• Extensive experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and design
• Virtualization platforms utilizing KVM, QEMU, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization
• Experience with AppDev automation and pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD)
• Experience in designing and delivering implementations using various public and private cloud infrastructure technologies and providers
• Knowledge of Virtualization technologies (networking, storage) such as KVM, Physical-2-Virt, and Virt-v2v
• Knowledge of common Add-Ons or third-party tools, including Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, and Performance tools
• Experience with technologies including OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure a plus
• Experience with hyper-converged technologies like IBM Fusion, Nutanix, Dell Apex
• Experience in Financial Services or Insurance

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!