Telco Cloud Architect (Saudi Nationality)

Red Hat Limited; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Telco Cloud Architect to drive the adoption of cloud solutions in the telco industry. This role involves engaging with customers, leading project deliveries, and ensuring a world-class experience with cutting-edge technologies. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in container and cloud technologies, along with a strong background in networking and strategic advisory roles. Join a collaborative environment where your ideas will shape the future of open source solutions and make a significant impact on the telco landscape.

Benefits

Flexible work environments

Professional development opportunities

Health and wellness programs

Travel opportunities

Inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Broad technical experience with cloud technologies and virtualization.
• Proven record in strategic advisory roles to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Deliver discovery, analysis, and design workshops for customers.
• Design and scope delivery projects and lead consulting teams.

Skills

Container Technologies

Virtualization

Cloud Technologies

OpenShift

OpenStack

Agile Methodologies

DevOps

Networking Concepts

Solutions Sales Mentality

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Certifications in Cloud Technologies

Tools

Automation Tools

Software Defined Storage

Job description

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Telco Cloud Architect (Saudi Nationality)

Apply remote type Onsite locations Riyadh - MSO time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R-045436

Red Hat Consulting is seeking a Cloud Architect specialized in Telco to join our regional consulting practice team in Riyadh. The primary responsibility of the Red Hat Telco Cloud Architect is to passionately drive the adoption of Red Hat's solution in our key telco service provider customers, network equipment providers, and key system integrator partners. Through a series of interactions both in-person and remote, the Telco Cloud Architect will win the trust and confidence of their engineering, development, and operations teams by aligning their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of the solution. The Telco Cloud Architect will have thorough working knowledge and hands-on experience with OpenShift and OpenStack-based cloud infrastructures to support applications providing containerized (CNF) and virtualized (VNF) network functions to the telco industry. Successful candidates will bring a wealth of industry experience and domain expertise to play a leading role in the design and project delivery of these business-critical solutions, and therefore will need a strong working knowledge of Agile project methodologies, as well as DevOps models and technologies.

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 customer’s 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 (product support) our Telco solutions at scale.

• 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.

• Demonstrate thought leadership in the Telco community by producing world-class white papers, webinars, etc., and speaking at industry-leading conferences.

What will you bring:

• Broad and deep technical experience with container, virtualization and cloud technologies e.g., OpenShift, OpenStack, software defined storage, automation, etc.

• Previous experience with Telco Environment, and advanced networking concepts

• Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior telco IT and business executives

• Knowledge of one or more communications service provider markets

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic

• Solutions sales mentality in an environment with multiple offerings and services

• Willingness to travel weekly to customer locations throughout Arabia Saudi

• Saudi nationality

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