Senior Architect, OpenShift - FSI

The Red Hat Financial Services Consulting Services team is seeking a Senior Architect. In this role, you will earn the trust and confidence of customers’ engineering, development, and operations teams through in-person and remote interactions by aligning their requirements and use cases to the functional capabilities of our solutions. You'll play a critical role in bringing together cross‑functional teams from Red Hat's product, Product Engineering, Support, Professional Services, and Sales teams to meet the needs of our most demanding customers.

As a Senior Architect, you will serve as a customer advocate with these organizations to deliver the right solutions and to ensure that these solutions are implemented and supported. This is a remote position with potential travel to customer sites and can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada near an airport. Successful applicants must reside where Red Hat is registered to do business.

• Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals

• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including quality assurance (QA) and ticket and bug management

• Mentor and share knowledge with customers

• Work with senior associates to guide the adoption of automation techniques and Dev Ops processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time‑to‑market

• Design and advocate solutions using cloud technologies, design principles, integration points, and automation methods

• 8‑10 years in a related technology position, e.g., sales, consulting, operations, development, etc

• 5+ years of experience with Public Cloud and Linux technologies

• 3+ years of experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• 3+ years of experience with Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform or Kubernetes

• Thorough knowledge of network functions virtualization (NFV), cloud software‑defined networking (SDN) or storage disciplines, and Dev Ops models and technologies

• Experience with storage systems like Fiber Channel (and/or FCOE), iSCSI, or other Software Defined Storage technologies.

• Extensive experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and design

• Virtualization platforms utilizing KVM, QEMU, Open Stack, Open Shift Virtualization

• Experience with App Dev automation and pipelines. Technology like Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, etc

• Experience with networking technologies including VLANs, routing protocols, IPAM solutions, and Load Balancers. Technology like Infoblox TCPWave, F5, etc

• Experience in designing and delivering implementations using various public and private cloud infrastructure technologies and providers

• Knowledge of Virtualization technologies such as KVM, Physical‑2‑Virt, and Virt‑v2v.

• Broad and deep technical experience with VMware ESXi software, including vCenter, and VM lifecycle operations using VMware tools preferred.

• Interest and knowledge in AI/ML technologies and recent developments. AUser‑level

• Admin‑level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, or Open Stack

• VMware infrastructure, including ESX, Vcenter, [S/DV]Switches/NSX, Data stores, vSAN, vVols, vRealize, SRM, Backup software

• Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX)

• Expert level with VMware VM foundational technologies for storage (Data stores, vSAN, vVols)

• Knowledge of common Add‑Ons or third‑party tools, including Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, and Performance tools)

• Experience with technologies including Open Stack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure a plus

• Experience with hyper‑converged technologies like IBM Fusion, Nutanix, Dell Apex

• Experience in Financial Services

The salary range for this position is $ - $. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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