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About the Role
The Red Hat Consulting team is seeking an OpenShift AI and OpenShift Virtualization Principal Architect to guide the implementation of complex solutions, helping customers modernize IT environments and migrate from legacy virtualization platforms to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. You will engage with customer teams to demonstrate how OpenShift enhances operational efficiency, developer productivity, and business continuity, serving as a subject matter expert through workshops, proofs of concept, and tailored demonstrations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of complex, production-grade solutions based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSO) and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, focusing on migrating workloads from traditional virtualization platforms.
- Lead Virtualization Migration Assessments (VMAs), technical discovery sessions, and workshops to identify customer challenges and demonstrate the value of Red Hat's portfolio.
- Build strategic relationships and become a trusted advisor to senior technical and business leaders within customer organizations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on OpenShift Virtualization for customer and internal teams, guiding them through design, pilot, and production deployments.
- Work with customers to identify challenges and blockers to the adoption of OpenShift Virtualization and collaborate to address their technical and business requirements.
- Work closely with Red Hat's product, engineering, professional services, and sales teams to ensure a world-class customer experience.
- Develop and share best practices, reusable assets, and architectural patterns for virtualization modernization.
- Contribute to whitepapers and webinars, and speak at industry conferences.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in a senior technology role like enterprise architecture, consulting, or sales engineering, with a focus on large-scale infrastructure solutions and platform adoption.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM, VMware vSphere, or libvirt, including application deployment and operations.
- Significant experience with Kubernetes and container platform deployments in large organizations, preferably with Red Hat OpenShift.
- Direct, practical experience with OpenShift Virtualization and migrating virtual machines is essential.
- Deep experience with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, including its core components, architecture, and production deployment considerations.
- Deep datacenter experience with compute, storage, and networking integration.
- Knowledge of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies such as OVN, NSX-T, or Cisco ACI is required.
- Deep knowledge of Linux operating systems, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or its derivatives, in production enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand customer challenges and build long-lasting relationships.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations regularly.
- Must be an Australian Citizen.
Skills
- OpenShift AI
- OpenShift Virtualization
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Kubernetes
- KVM
- VMware vSphere
- libvirt
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- OVN
- NSX-T
- Cisco ACI
- Automation frameworks and tools like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
- Consulting or professional services role for a major software company
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Travel to customer locations regularly
Experience Level
- Principal
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Red Hat certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization, RHCA, RHCE)
About the Company
- 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 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Red Hat's 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.
- Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.
- We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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