Architect - Defense Netherlands; MoD​/NATO

Position: Architect - Defense Netherlands (MoD/NATO)
The Red Hat Consulting Services team is looking for an Architect to join us in the Netherlands. In this role, you will work at the customer site as a subject matter expert in Red Hat's infrastructure and cloud technology. You'll answer questions about best practices across topics such as reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups, as well as lead the on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hat's technology.

As an Architect, you will gain understanding of customer infrastructures and business issues and make recommendations appropriate to their environments. This is a great opportunity to build on your core base of knowledge and work in a fast-paced environment promoting Red Hat's solutions.

Red Hat 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.

What you will do:

Upskill knowledge in Red Hat technologies using Red Hat University and support from the wider consulting team to apply these concepts to customer needs

Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs

Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification and design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions

Learn about new technologies and apply these concepts to customer needs

Adapt to changing customer requirements

Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner

What you will bring:

We don't expect you to check off all of the below areas to join our team. Instead, we prefer to build around your strengths and provide opportunities for you to grow your skills. We can offer a supportive working environment and lots of development opportunities.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field of study, or alternatively, equivalent work experience and/or industry recognised certifications (particularly RH certifications)5 + years experience working in a consulting role, or similar

Experience or knowledge of infrastructure and cloud technologies - e.g. enterprise use of virtualization or containers

Foundational awareness of modern application development practices and the software delivery life cycle

Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and guide customer interactions

Knowledge of one or more of Red Hat's infrastructure solutions like Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat Open Stack Platform, or Red Hat Open Shift would be great - but we would also consider people with K8 / Chef / Puppet experience etcRed Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification is a plus, and/or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, or the willingness to gain this certification in the early stages of your career with Red Hat Willingness to travel according to project needs

Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch Dutch citizenship

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