The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an Cloud Architect to join us in Dubai Office, UAE. In this role, you will work as a subject-matter expert in Red Hat’s infrastructure and cloud technology. You'll answer questions about best practices around automation, reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups and lead the on-site delivery and implementation of Red Hat’s technology that delivers freedom, flexibility, and outstanding performance. You will gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructures, and business issues and you will 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.

We are looking for candidates who are based in the UAE with hands on experience in Openstack.

What you will do

• Winning the confidence of our prospective customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s use cases and architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.
• Designing and scoping delivery projects as well as leading consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments.
• The design, creation and delivery of content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell (pre-sales), service (consulting) and support (CEE) our solutions at scale.
• Work closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat’s products.
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in the community by producing world-class white papers, webinars, etc. and speaking at industry leading conferences.

What you will bring

• Prior experience working in a consulting and architecture roles
• Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions
• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies on a delivery and architectue levels
• Experience implementing container technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
• Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat Openstack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Willingness to travel across the region
• Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms introducing DevOps, continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management
• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English and Arabic
• Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus
• Experience with AI solutions is a big plus