Defense IT Architect: Cloud & Open Source (Netherlands)

Red Hat B.V.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Consulting Services in the Netherlands seeks an Architect to serve as a site-based SME on Red Hat infrastructure and cloud technology. You will guide architecture, design, testing, and deployment for customer environments and apply best practices across reliability, scalability, and availability.

The role emphasizes strong English/Dutch communication, travel readiness, and collaboration with a global consulting team to deliver cost-effective, enterprise-wide solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience and/or industry recognised certifications (RH certifications)
• 5+ years experience in a consulting role or similar
• Experience or knowledge of infrastructure and cloud technologies - e.g. enterprise use of virtualization 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 Red Hat infrastructure solutions like Satellite, Virtualization, Ansible Platform/OpenShift, or related tools (K8, Chef, Puppet)
• RHCA and/or RHCE certification, or willingness to gain this certification early in your Red Hat career
• Willingness to travel according to project needs
• Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch
• Dutch citizenship

Responsibilities

• Upskill knowledge in Red Hat technologies using Red Hat University and support from the consulting team
• Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, 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
• Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner

Skills

Architectural design

Cloud infrastructure

Red Hat technologies

Customer-facing skills

Travel willingness

Dutch-English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

OpenShift

Ansible Automation Platform

RHCE/RHCA readiness

Job description

Red Hat Consulting Services in the Netherlands seeks an Architect to serve as a site-based SME on Red Hat infrastructure and cloud technology. You will guide architecture, design, testing, and deployment for customer environments and apply best practices across reliability, scalability, and availability.

The role emphasizes strong English/Dutch communication, travel readiness, and collaboration with a global consulting team to deliver cost-effective, enterprise-wide solutions.