OpenShift Architect - Hybrid Cloud & VM Modernization Lead

Red Hat; Chihuahua; Remote; MXN 2,251,000 - 3,376,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Consulting seeks an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect with deep Kubernetes and virtualization expertise to guide customers through infrastructure transformation. You will lead architecture and implementation of OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies.

You will engage early in the sales cycle to shape opportunities, support proposals, and drive automation and IaC adoption across delivery teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise infrastructure, consulting, or platform engineering experience.
• Proven pre-sales or customer-facing background supporting complex solution sales cycles.
• Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms.
• Hands-on virtualization experience (VMware, KVM) and migration strategies.
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization or similar VM modernization approaches.
• Solid understanding of compute, storage, and networking in enterprise infra.
• Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) and IaC practices.
• Excellent communication and executive-level storytelling skills.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).
• Red Hat certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engage in pre-sales activities including discovery sessions and solution design.
• Partner with Sales to shape opportunities, define scope, and build technical proposals.
• Support RFP/RFI responses and present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Assess customer environments and propose optimized OpenShift architectures.
• Design and implement OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization.
• Lead migration initiatives from traditional virtualization to OpenShift.
• Provide technical leadership during delivery aligning with best practices.
• Advise customers on infrastructure and platform roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Consulting, and Support teams to deliver solutions.
• Drive adoption of automation, DevOps, and IaC.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

VMware

KVM

Ansible

Terraform

IaC

Executive storytelling

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

VMware

KVM

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Red Hat Consulting seeks an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect with deep Kubernetes and virtualization expertise to guide customers through infrastructure transformation. You will lead architecture and implementation of OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies.

You will engage early in the sales cycle to shape opportunities, support proposals, and drive automation and IaC adoption across delivery teams.