Senior Telco Architect

About The Job

The Red Hat Telco Services Consulting Services team is seeking a Senior Architect to join us in North America. 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 ensure they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable manner. This remote work position will require travel to customer sites, and applicants can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada near a primary airport.

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 directly with senior associates and telecommunication clients, understanding their industry‑specific needs, 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.

Analyze client business requirements and translate them into specific technology, system, and application designs to ensure the architecture aligns with the client's long‑term business goals.

Lead the architecture design activities and sessions, ensuring that various systems and technologies are integrated to meet the end customer's requirements.

Design and advocate for solutions using cloud technologies, robust design principles, multiple integration points, and automation and orchestration methods.

• 5-8 years in a related technology position, e.g., sales, consulting, operations, development, etc
• 4+ years of experience with Public Cloud and Linux technologies.
• 4+ years of experience with telecommunications technologies and networking infrastructure.
• 2+ years of experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• 2+ years of experience with Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform, ACM, ACS, Quay, Ceph, or Kubernetes.
• Thorough knowledge of network functions virtualization (NFV), network acceleration such as DPDK and SRIOV, zero‑touch provisioning (ZTP), 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, NFS, 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, and VMware.
• Experience with App Dev automation and pipelines. Technologies like Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, etc
• Experience with networking technologies, including VLANs, routing protocols, 4/5G, IPAM solutions, and Load Balancers. Technologies like Infoblox TCPWave, F5, etc
• Experience in designing and delivering implementations using various public and private cloud infrastructure technologies and providers
• Interest and knowledge in AI/ML technologies and recent developments.
• Admin‑level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, Nutanix, or Open Stack
• VMware infrastructure, including ESX, vCenter, [S/DV]Switches/NSX, Data stores, vSAN, vVols, vRealize, SRM, Backup software
• Advanced level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX) and 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 is a plus
• Experience in the Telecommunications Industry

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