Senior Architect, OpenShift Infrastructure - Active TS/SCI Clearance

Red Hat, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Services is seeking a Senior Architect to design and deliver strategic solutions for clients, providing technical leadership, hands-on implementation, and enablement of best practices. The role emphasizes open source, enterprise-scale problem solving, and partnering with customers to achieve measurable value.

You will travel regionally to client locations, collaborate with multiple teams, and mentor junior staff while promoting Red Hat technologies, consulting services, and training

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in solution/enterprise architect or technical consultant role
• Proven ability to design architectures and lead implementation
• Experience guiding cross-functional teams and stakeholder management
• Experience in cloud platform consulting engagements
• Experience with RedHat OpenShift and related components

Responsibilities

• Guide customers in building scalable, managed solutions using RedHat technologies
• Lead and deliver services discovery sessions educating customers on RedHat tech
• Scope projects, align with customer requirements
• Provide technical expertise during presales
• Build and maintain customer relationships
• Articulate value of RedHat Services portfolio and integrate services into solutions
• Lead internal initiatives to foster innovation and growth
• Travel to client locations up to weekly as needed

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Technical leadership

Team mentoring

Presales support

Cloud platforms

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Containers

Automation tools

IaC

AWS

Azure

OpenStack

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

OpenShift Virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

OpenShift

Job description

The Red Hat Services team is looking for a Senior Architect to design and deliver strategic solutions that solve our clients' business challenges, through technical leadership, hands-on implementation, and enablement of recommended practices. In this role, you will play a key role as a promoter of the adoption of RedHat's solutions for our customers by using your technical expertise, and interpersonal skills. You'll need to have a balance of solid technical experience, team leadership, awareness of open source, thorough understanding of business processes, and the ability to identify and solve issues at an enterprise level. RedHat Consulting offers more than just technical expertise. We're strategic advisers who take a big picture view of our customers' organizations, understand their challenges, and help to overcome them with comprehensive, cost-effective solutions. As part of our team, you'll help customers quickly and strategically achieve value while building enterprise-wide capabilities. Being open is core to our technologies and our consulting approach. This position requires candidates to work on-site with clients, so a willingness to travel regularly to customer locations throughout North America is required. Successful applicants must reside in a state where RedHat is registered to do business and hold an Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility.

What you will do:

• Guide customers in building scalable, optimally managed solutions that are adaptable to technological improvements, using RedHat technologies.
• Lead and deliver Services discovery sessions to educate customers on RedHat technologies and best practices.
• Support the creation and review of task lists, accurately scoping projects and ensuring alignment with customer requirements.
• Provide technical expertise during presales activities.
• Build and maintain solid customer relationships, fostering collaboration and success.
• Clearly articulate the value of the RedHat Services Portfolio, including Consulting, Training, and Technical Account Managers and integrate services into customer solutions.
• Provide customer feedback to internal teams to enhance product offerings and services.
• Lead internal initiatives that foster innovation, efficiency, and growth within the Services business.
• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies
• Regular travel to client locations, up to weekly according to project needs

What you will bring:

• 5+ years experience in a solution architect, enterprise architect or technical consultant role
• Track record for creating architectural designs and leading a team on implementation toward successful customer outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to oversee project delivery including collaborating on project timelines and scope of work, identifying stakeholder needs and setting expectations
• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders
• An ability and desire to mentor and experience with mentoring and coaching team members
• Experience leading teams in workshops, enablement, or engagements
• Associate or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
• Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements
• Experience with RedHat Openshift and/or underlying components like Kubernetes and containers
• Broad and deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies like OpenShift Virtualization, OpenStack, VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and IaC practices
• Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute, storage, networking)
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to gain RedHat certifications in the early stages of your career with RedHat, with current active RedHat certifications a plus

After joining RedHat, You will undergo an intensive customized training program on RedHat technologies and Services solutions. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role: Within two months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following: Learn RedHat technologies through enablements designed and taught by RedHat experts and RedHat certification Bring together your existing technical and leadership experience with new knowledge of RedHat technologies to design and lead solutions for customers Gain exposure and collaboration within RedHat Services & the more prominent organization through everyday networking and community events. Successful, collaborative delivery of customer projects as a technical lead throu