Lightwell Specialist Solution Architect (DevSecOps)

Red Hat; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 198,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability leave

Stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Transit benefits

Job summary

Red Hat in the United States is seeking a Lightwell Specialist Solution Architect to lead trusted software supply chain actions, enabling GTM strategies around Red Hat Lightwell. You will remove blockers, engage developers and platform engineers, and demonstrate value through hands-on builds in customers’ environments.

You will collaborate with sales, CS, and partners, test new features, address ecosystem requests, and help drive adoption by presenting technical workshops and architecture

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a combination of software engineering, build/release engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or technical sales, including direct responsibility for software that carried real dependency and upgrade obligations.
• Demonstrated ability to work hands-on in a customer or production build environment.

Responsibilities

• Deploy into requested engagements as Red Hat's technical lead for trusted software supply chain, partnering with the Account Solution Architect and Account Executive to drive Red Hat Lightwell within new and existing customer accounts.
• Lead the technical conversation across three distinct audiences: developers and build engineers, application development and platform engineering leadership, and the security and compliance organization, adapting depth and framing to each.
• Articulate and defend Red Hat's differentiating position against alternative approaches in the market.
• Position the software supply chain offerings within the broader Red Hat portfolio, including hardened container images, artifact signing, attestation, SBOM generation, pipeline policy enforcement, and runtime security.
• Prove the offering in the customer's environment, configuring their build to resolve against Lightwell repositories, executing their build, and troubleshooting the result alongside their engineers.
• Facilitate pre, and post‑sales activities when needed, including technical deep dives, proofs of concept, bake‑offs, internal sprints and hackathons, and development of partner vertical‑specific solutions to drive adoption of Red Hat Lightwell.
• Identify and partner with customer stakeholders, acting as an advocate within both their line‑of‑business and internal customer teams.
• Advise on integration with the customer's existing artifact management, mirroring, and pipeline estate, including disconnected and air‑gapped environments.
• Work closely with the Lightwell business unit and engineering teams, providing a market feedback loop on the product and solutions.
• Execute community outreach and customer advocacy activities including conference speaking, blog posts, etc.
• Deliver enablement and mentoring to the Red Hat Technical Sales community to raise baseline capability on software supply chain security.

Skills

Software engineering

Build/release engineering

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Technical sales

Hands-on build environments

Tools

Maven

pip

npm

Job description

Red Hat in the United States is seeking a Lightwell Specialist Solution Architect to lead trusted software supply chain actions, enabling GTM strategies around Red Hat Lightwell. You will remove blockers, engage developers and platform engineers, and demonstrate value through hands-on builds in customers’ environments.

You will collaborate with sales, CS, and partners, test new features, address ecosystem requests, and help drive adoption by presenting technical workshops and architecture