Serve as a subject matter expert for our clients, 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
Provide technical leadership to a team of consultants working on the client engagements with you
Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner - 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.
Support with pre-sales activities, develop and review task lists, develop high level design architecture, lead Services discovery sessions to gather requirements.
Requirements
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 or knowledge of infrastructure and cloud technologies - e.g. enterprise use of virtualisation 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 Hat's infrastructure solutions like Red hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Ansible Automation 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
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 (working in a hybrid fashion, with typically around 2 days onsite per week, but can vary)
About Red Hat
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Additional Information
The Red Hat Consulting Services team is looking for a Cloud Architect to join us in the U.K. In this role, you will work with customers as a subject matter expert in Red Hat's infrastructure and cloud technology. You'll answer questions about best practices across topics such as reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups, as well as lead the delivery and implementation of Red Hat's 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 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.
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