Cloud Systems Architect jobs in Great Falls, MT

About the job

The Red Hat Services team is looking for a Senior Consulting Architect to join us in Zurich, Switzerland. In this role, you will focus on the core around the processes necessary to promote the adoption of Red Hat Technologies either through migration or modernization of customer environments. You’ll work closely with the Consulting, Sales, and Presales teams to achieve your goals. You will serve as a customer advocate to architect the right solutions and to ensure that those solutions are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way. You’ll be expected to learn our offerings quickly, especially Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. 

As a Senior Architect, your tasks will include helping customers to understand their current and desired state of container and cloud-native application adoption. Ultimate success in the role is to help customers reach their desired state through the use of the Red Hat technology and services portfolio. You’ll need to have technical software development expertise, a passion for open source, a thorough understanding of business processes, and the ability to identify and create business value at the enterprise level. In addition, you’ll need to have a working knowledge of agile project methodologies and DevOps  and technologies.

What you will do

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions

• Team with our customers to lead the design and implementation of applications using modern appdev practices and open source emerging technologies. Here are just a few of the domains we cover:- Microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures- DevOps engineering and application delivery- Container-based continuous delivery- Cloud automation, and everything-as-code

• Apply analysis and define modernization strategies from Red Hat’s Application Services portfolio e.g. Quarkus, Fuse, KNative

• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments

• 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

• Address the customer’s technical, development, and strategic IT requirements as the main point of contact for Red Hat’s professional services

• Use industry practices and Red Hat's policies and procedures to solve diverse problems

• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in middleware, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and cloud-native application community by producing whitepapers, webinars, etc. and speaking at seminars and conferences

What you will bring

• 10 years of experience working in an application architect, solutions architect, enterprise architect, or architect consulting delivery role

• Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior IT operations and engineering professionals and business executives

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; extensive experience presenting even to C-level executives

• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with the open source communities via email and other communication tools

• Solutions sales experience in an environment with multiple products and services

• Background in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain

• Extensive knowledge of Openshift or other Kubernetes solutionsKnowledge of application runtimes, enterprise container architectures, patterns and solutions, Linux, and deploying and running container solutions in private, public, and hybrid clouds

• Experience in application development, modernization and enterprise application architecture, including microservices

• Experience in delivering applications to production with Java development technologies and frameworks such as python, NodeJS, Dot net etc.

• Development experience with Microsoft .Net would be a plus

• Experience with configuring and consuming modern application delivery tools, in development and deployment of applications to production

• Good presentation and communication skills in English and German

• Knowledge of and operational experience with new services methodologies related to next generation application migration and modernization, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or agile and DevOps

• Competence to quickly embrace and understand new technologies; ability to comprehend new information and understand complex topics

• Multiple years of experience focused on application development, maintenance, and support including supporting infrastructure

• Proven ability to work with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers

• Ability to study and quickly learn and put into practice new topicsPassion for open source, software, tooling, and automation

• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas is a plus

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