Consulting Architect

Job Summary:
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Design and implement modern platform architectures with a strong understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, container orchestration, and automation at scale.- Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.- Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values- Remain hands-on with development and implementation — especially in prototyping, Design and agile iterative delivery.- Must be able to both make strategic business recommendations and influence project direction toward business goals- Trusted advisor to technical Red Hat and customer resources- Considers customer culture/organization in their design and delivery of their projects and brings attention to opportunities for improvement- Support technical presales efforts, workshops, and proofs of concept, bringing in business context and value-first thinking.- Strong experience in defining best practices for platform deployment, platform hardening, platform observability, monitoring and alerting, capacity management, scalability, resiliency, security operations.-
- Contribute to the development of standard consulting offerings, frameworks, and capability playbooks.- Accelerates collaboration across stakeholders and the different teams in the project

Required Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years of experience working in a consulting and architecture roles- Hands On Experience and advanced knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift platform.- In-depth expertise in managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments.- Proven expertise in operationalization of Red Hat OpenShift container platform through the adoption of Service Mesh, GitOps principles, and Serverless frameworks- Migrating to OpenShift container platform- Proven leadership of modern software and platform transformation projects- Experience with infrastructure as code, automation tools, and CI/CD pipelines- Practical understanding of microservices, API design, and DevOps practices- Applied experience with agile, scrum, and cross-functional team collaboration-
- Good customer-facing skills, ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions- Excellent communication and facilitation skills with both technical and business audiences- Engagement in open source communities or contributor background- Must have Red Hat OpenShift certification

Nice to Have:
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift AI, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, or similar platforms- Experience with Enterprise Architecture (like, TOGAF, Zachman)

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