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About the Role

This Sales Specialist role drives commercial growth and customer adoption for OpenShift, focused on Application Platform & AI Enterprise across Australia, New Zealand, and the wider APAC region. You will establish OpenShift as the trusted hybrid platform for building, validating, and deploying intelligent applications at enterprise scale, addressing the urgent need to secure software supply chains as enterprises move toward production AI systems.

Responsibilities

Direct the end-to-end sales strategy for major opportunities, orchestrating technical specialists and partner ecosystems to secure the technical close and grow subscriptions.
Expand enterprise AI adoption by showing clients how to deploy, manage, and scale autonomous agent workflows and distributed inference on a unified hybrid platform.
Capitalise on the Lightwell initiative to accelerate OpenShift sales, positioning our platform as the essential delivery vehicle to ingest, validate, and roll out patched libraries at machine speed.
Position Software Factory capabilities as the definitive solution for organisations facing strict security mandates, continuous compliance rules, and digital sovereignty requirements.
Build credible economic business cases for executive buyers, proving lower total cost of ownership, improved hardware utilisation, and accelerated developer delivery.
Guide enterprises through modernising legacy virtualisation and proprietary platforms toward flexible, cloud-native container architectures.
Collaborate with Account Teams to define the technical landscape within strategic account plans, aligning customer business priorities with platform strategy.
Enable and mentor broader account teams on current OpenShift sales plays, partner solution blueprints, and domain-specific use cases.

Requirements

Experience leading and closing complex, high-stakes enterprise platform deals involving multiple technical and commercial decision-makers.
Proven ability as a public speaker and cloud-native evangelist who can command a room, simplify technical complexity, and inspire confidence in executive leaders.
Thorough understanding of Kubernetes, enterprise container platforms, modern developer tooling, and automated Software Factory pipelines.
Clear command of the enterprise AI lifecycle, including distributed inference, model serving, and emerging agentic software development workflows.
Consultative challenger mindset that uncovers hidden operational costs, reframes problems, and guides customers toward open, sovereign architectures.
Entrepreneurial energy to build sustainable pipeline and run a broad territory across Australia, New Zealand, and the wider APAC region.

Skills

Kubernetes
Enterprise container platforms
Modern developer tooling
Automated Software Factory pipelines
Enterprise AI lifecycle
Distributed inference
Model serving
Agentic software development workflows
Sales strategy
Partner ecosystems
Cloud-native evangelism
Public speaking

Location

Australia
New Zealand
APAC region

Work Type

Flexible work environments

Experience Level

Enterprise platform deals
High-stakes deals

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.
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