Cloud Architect - AI

Red Hat; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat's Consulting team in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Cloud Architect - AI to lead on-site delivery of Red Hat’s infrastructure and AI/MLOps solutions in complex environments.

You will work as a subject matter expert, guide discovery and design workshops, and ensure scalable, reliable deployments while promoting open source and Red Hat technologies.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in a consulting role; ability to deliver in one-on-one assignments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a customer advocate, designing the right solutions and ensuring that they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way
• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and inspire customer use cases and architecture design decisions
• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
• Design, create, and deliver content that will enable the broader Red Hat organization to sell, service, and support our cloud and infrastructure solutions at scale
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat's services capabilities, promote repeated customer engagements, and lower delivery risks
• Contribute to, and lead the delivery of Red Hat solutions based on the Red Hat tools and technologies

Skills

Consulting experience

Customer-facing skills

Cloud & infra know-how

Container technologies

OpenShift & Ansible

Open source knowledge

Problem solving

Arabic & English

Tools

OpenShift

Ansible Automation Platform

Job description

Job Summary

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Cloud Architect - AI to join us in Saudi Arabia. In this role, you will work as a subject matter expert in Red Hat’s infrastructure and cloud technology with main focus on Red Hat AI and MLOps. You'll 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 Hat’s 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 Hat’s solutions.

What you will do

• Serve as a customer advocate, designing the right solutions and ensuring that they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way
• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and inspire customer use cases and architecture design decisions
• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
• Design, create, and deliver content that will enable the broader Red Hat organization to sell, service, and support our cloud and infrastructure solutions at scale
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat's services capabilities, promote repeated customer engagements, and lower delivery risks
• Contribute to, and lead the delivery of Red Hat solutions based on the Red Hat tools and technologies

What you will bring

• Prior experience working in a consulting role; ability to deliver in one-on-one assignments
• Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions
• Excellent knowledge of cloud and infrastructure technologies on a delivery level
• Experience implementing container technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
• Knowledge of one or more Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Understanding of the open source community
• Excellent problem‑solving and planning skills
• Good written and verbal language skills in Arabic and English

The following are considered a plus:

• Strong knowledge of AI technologies and Red Hat OpenShift AI
• Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms introducing DevOps, continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management, and GitOps
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification

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