Senior Architect, OpenShift - FSI

The Red Hat Financial Services Consulting Services team is seeking a Senior 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 a Senior 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. 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.

What you will do:

• 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

• Work with senior associates to 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

• Design and advocate solutions using cloud technologies, design principles, integration points, and automation methods

What you will bring:

• 8-10 years in a related technology position, e.g., sales, consulting, operations, development, etc

• 5+ years of experience with Public Cloud and Linux technologies

• 3+ years of experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• 3+ years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or Kubernetes 

Nice to have:

• Thorough knowledge of network functions virtualization (NFV),  cloud software-defined networking (SDN) or storage disciplines, and DevOps models and technologies

• 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. Technology like Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, etc

• Experience with networking technologies including VLANs, routing protocols, IPAM solutions, and Load Balancers. Technology like Infoblox TCPWave, F5, etc

• Experience in designing and delivering implementations using various public and private cloud infrastructure technologies and providers

• Knowledge of Virtualization technologies such as KVM, Physical-2-Virt, and Virt-v2v.

• Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, and VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools preferred.

• Interest and knowledge in AI/ML technologies and recent developments. AUser-level 

• Admin-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, or OpenStack

• VMware infrastructure, including ESX, Vcenter, [S/DV]Switches/NSX, Datastores, vSAN, vVols, vRealize, SRM, Backup software

• Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX)

• Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols)

• 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 

Pay Transparency

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. 

About Red Hat

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.

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! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 

Inclusion at Red Hat
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.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
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