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Red Hat is looking for a Chief Architect to engage with customers, identify business and technology use cases, and drive sales towards common best practices. The role focuses on building trust and alliances with customers by understanding their business requirements and providing architectural guidance.

Requirements

• Experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud platforms
• Must have deep experience with application networking and security, and a good understanding of concepts and tools such as service mesh, mTLS, container networking interface, SPIFFE/SPIRE
• Strong ability to define and describe complex domain architecture from a logical, functional, and technical perspective.
• Implement the deployment of those architecture following a DevOps and GitOps pattern
• Contribute code/configurations in at least two languages such as Python, Go, Helm, Ansible, Rust, or Bash.
• Strong knowledge of Red Hat’s product portfolio from their domain or specialty perspective.
• Demonstrated capability in reuse of existing patterns (avoiding bespoke solutions for each customer) and a healthy modularization practice which enables reusability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert to the SA/SSA community in respective geography, ensuring that architectural patterns are reused in order to create Sales, Support, and Engineering efficiencies.
• Understand both how to define an architecture but also how to code as a reusable GitOps Pattern, utilizing tools like Helm or Ansible.
• Be able to debug code written by other engineers and, when needed, propose improvements (in the form of pull requests).
• Serve as a key facilitator uniting sellers with Open Source community practices, enabling the sharing of that knowledge inside and outside of our company.
• Participate in Executive Briefing Centre (EBC) sessions to capture future level requirements and report them in a consistent manner through the Field Feedback Forum.
• Review of any technical architecture proposals in the region before they are sent by the Solution Architect or SSA to their customers.
• Understand and articulate the business requirements of customers and partners and what are their drivers for working with Red Hat.

Other

• Serve as a senior level architect that can engage in targeted conversations with customers who are representative of their region or industry
• Hold an extensive understanding of the competitive landscape, current drivers of customer business growth, and what differentiates Red Hat from key competitors.
• Drive our sales toward common best practices, developing and reusing common code and following the best prevailing practices of open-source communities.
• While a Chief Architect may be engaged in the sales process, their role is primarily focused on building trust and alliance with customers, not on closing sales.
• Ability to speak, write, and share insights on behalf of Red Hat in a variety of scenarios, including both internal and external audiences (i.e., should be able to serve as a media spokesperson for their geography).