Remote OpenShift Architect & Platform Transformation Lead

Red Hat, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat is seeking an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect to lead across pre-sales and delivery, shaping solutions and driving OpenShift-based platform implementations. You will guide migrations from traditional virtualization and champion automation and IaC practices, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align with business goals.

The role emphasizes senior technical leadership, strong communication, and a track record of delivering enterprise infrastructure transformations in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise infrastructure, consulting, or platform engineering.
• Experience in pre-sales or customer-facing roles.
• Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM) and migration strategies.
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization or similar VM modernization.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).
• Red Hat certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engage in pre-sales activities, including customer discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design.
• Partner with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, define scope, and build compelling technical proposals.
• Support RFP/RFI responses and present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Assess customer infrastructure environments and propose optimized architectures.
• Design and implement OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization.
• Lead migration initiatives from traditional virtualization platforms to OpenShift.
• Provide technical leadership during delivery, ensuring alignment with architectural best practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, helping define infrastructure and platform roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Consulting, and Support teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Drive adoption of automation, DevOps, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reusable assets, and best practice

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Pre-sales

Communication

English

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

VMware

KVM

OpenShift Virtualization

Job description

Red Hat is seeking an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect to lead across pre-sales and delivery, shaping solutions and driving OpenShift-based platform implementations. You will guide migrations from traditional virtualization and champion automation and IaC practices, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align with business goals.

The role emphasizes senior technical leadership, strong communication, and a track record of delivering enterprise infrastructure transformations in a