Consulting AI Architect - OpenShift (Saudi National)

Red Hat, Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Consulting in Riyadh invites an experienced Cloud Architect with strong OpenShift expertise to join our Saudi Arabia office. You will act as a subject-matter expert in Red Hat infrastructure and cloud technology, guiding on-site delivery and implementation to ensure high performance and reliability.

The role requires leading workshops, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and developing scalable methodologies to extend Red Hat services across the region.

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting and architecture roles.
• Excellent English communication and customer-facing skills.
• Hands-on with infrastructure technologies, virtualization, and containers.
• Experience integrating DevOps and CD in cloud/container environments.
• Willingness to travel across the region up to 100%.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, analysis and design workshops shaping architecture decisions.
• Guide pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, consulting, support and sales for a world-class experience.
• Help develop repeatable methodologies and tools to scale Red Hat services.

Skills

OpenShift

Consulting

Architecture

Ansible

RHEL

Virtualization

Containerization

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Customer-facing

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

OpenShift Virtualization

Job description

****About the Job:****The **Red Hat Consulting** team is looking for a **Cloud Architect** with **strong OpenShift** experience to join us in our Riyadh’s Office, KSA.In this role, you will work as a **subject-matter expert** in Red Hat’s infrastructure and cloud technology.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.**This position is open to Saudi nationals only.******What you will do:***** 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.* Lead consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management* Work closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat’s products.* Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.****What you will bring:***** Prior experience working in **consulting and architecture** roles* Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions* Excellent knowledge of **infrastructure technologies** on hands-on delivery and architecture levels* Experience implementing **virtualization and container** technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments* Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like **Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)*** Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms introducing DevOps, continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management* Excellent written and verbal language skills in English* Willingness to **travel across the region up to 100%******The following is considered a plus:***** Hand's on AI skills (models onboarding, LLM tunings, NVIDIA GPU and Networking). Architecting is a plus but can be learned on the job* Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus* Experience with **Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization** is considered a big plus