Senior Cloud Architect

Red Hat; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Dubai is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to work on delivering Red Hat's solutions. This expert will engage with clients, leveraging their skills in infrastructure, architecture design, and cloud technologies. The role involves leading consulting projects, gaining customer confidence, and contributing to the development of methodologies to enhance service delivery. A strong background in Red Hat technologies and experience in network/datacenter design are essential. Relocation support to the UAE is provided.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in infrastructure and architecture design.
• Experience with network/datacenter design and documentation.
• Knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Responsibilities

• Deliver discovery analysis and design workshops for customers.
• Lead consulting teams through successful customer deployments.
• Develop repeatable methodologies to scale Red Hat's service capabilities.

Skills

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Container management

Networking (SDN, Layer 2/3/4)

Software Defined Storage (Ceph, SAN, NAS)

Ansible basics

Authentication and Authorization

Job description

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to join us in Dubai. This role you will work as a subject-matter expert in Red Hats infrastructure and cloud technology. Youll answer questions about best practices around automation reliability scalability maintainability high availability and failover setups and lead the on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hats technology that delivers freedom flexibility and outstanding performance. You will gain an understanding of our customers infrastructures and business issues and you will 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 Hats solutions.

We are looking for candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure and architecture design topics.

Red Hat will support relocation to the UAE for a successful candidate.

What you will do

• Winning the confidence of our prospective customers through the successful delivery of discovery analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customers use cases and architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.
• Designing and scoping delivery projects as well as leading consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments.
• The design creation and delivery of content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell (pre-sales) service (consulting) and support (CEE) our solutions at scale.
• Work closely with product business units product engineering consulting support and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hats products.
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hats services capabilities promote repeatable customer engagements and lower delivery risk.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in the community by producing world-class white papers webinars etc. and speaking at industry leading conferences.

What you will bring

• Background in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Command line skills Linux network configuration)
• Experience with Containers container management utilities and debugging containers; also Quay
• Skills in Package management both on the CLI and with Red Hat Satellite
• Hands on knolwedge in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOSO18 requires OCP as the base platform to be deployed upon so OCP knowledge becomes a prerequisite for OSP)
• Architecture skills specifically around datacenter infrastructure (networking compute and storage)
• Compute skills: Lights-Out-Management LOM (IPMI Redfish) UEFI/BIOS server hardware
• Networking skills: Software Defined Networking SDN Layer 2 (ARP MAC) Layer 3 (TCP UDP) and Layer 4 (IP) Open Virtual Switch OVS
• Storage skills Software Defined Storage SDS (Ceph) SAN NAS
• Ansible basics (playbooks and troubleshooting)
• Authentication and Authorization (Red Hat IDM Active Directory)
• Experience with network/datacenter design elaboration of design and architecture documents and scoping/discovery sessions

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds 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. Were 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.

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Required Experience

Senior IC