Architect, OpenShift Virtualization
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listed on 2026-06-20
Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listing for:
Red Hat, Inc.
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-06-20
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Description
Red Hat Canada Consulting Services team is seeking an 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 an 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.
you will do
- Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals
- Contribute to project documentation and diagrams
- Mentor and share knowledge with customers and team members
- 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
- 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 Open Shift‑based platforms, including Open Shift Virtualization
- Lead migration initiatives from traditional virtualization platforms to Open Shift
- 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, Dev Ops, and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reusable assets, and best practices
- 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
- Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute, storage, networking)
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including executive‑level storytelling
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and architectures
- Fluent in English and French Canadian (written and verbal) is a plus
- Red Hat certifications are a plus
- 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…
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