The Red Hat Consulting Services team is looking for a Cloud 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 with a solid focus on cloud container technology. You'll answer questions about best practices around 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. As a Cloud Architect, you will gain an understanding of our customers' infrastructures, application landscapes, and business issues and you’ll 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.

What you will do

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

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

• Learn 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

• Prior experience working in a consulting or services role; ability to deliver in one-on-one assignments as well as projects

• Excellent knowledge of containers or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology and related infrastructure technologies on a delivery level

• Experience implementing virtualization technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments

• Knowledge of Red Hat’s solutions like Red Hat OpenShift; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a plus

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

• Understanding of the open source community

• Excellent problem-solving and planning skills

• Applied knowledge of working with agile, scrum, and DevOps teams

• Willingness to travel up to 25-50% across the region

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in Dutch and English

• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification is a plus

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, or the ability to get it within a few weeks of the start date is a plus

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Opportunities are open. Join us.

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