Senior Specialist Solution Architect Ansible jobs at Red Hat in Australia, Sydney

What You Will Do:

• Be responsible for customer account growth strategy regarding Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform solutions and use cases

• Collaborate with the Account team in the account planning process; analyze customers’ business drivers to create a narrative that positions Red Hat’s automation solutions as a key ingredient in delivering technology-fueled innovation and digital transformation

• Manage a complex sales cycle from prospecting to closing in collaboration with the account management team, solutions architects, and the professional services team

• Meet quantitative and qualitative performance expectations

• Use your leadership skills and extensive specialist experience in identifying transformation projects by engaging senior executives (C-Level decision makers) and winning their mindshare

• Capture compelling reasons for customers to undertake the project by illustrating the business impact of the Red Hat technology solutions

• Ensure Red Hat’s solutions are tailored to meet customer business requirements

• Ensure that the differentiated business value derived from the Red Hat solutions and Red Hat’s competitive advantages are understood and agreed upon by the customer decision makers

• Enable the Red Hat sales teams and partners so that they are also able to effectively communicate to the business the business value derived from Red Hat’s solutions

• Apply Red Hat’s journey-based service engagement programs and commercial buying programs to build long-term strategic relationships with customers

• Produce referenceable success stories for strategic solutions wins

What You Will Bring:

• 10+ years of experience selling automation and management software offerings, cloud services, or related technology offerings

• Value-based solutions selling experience; ability to translate customer business and transformation objectives to the value delivered by technology solutions

• Creative thinking, communication, and presentation skills

• Passion for open source technology and understanding of the Red Hat software subscription business model

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

• Balance of strategic, tactical, technical, and creative thinking skills

Specialist knowledge in the following domains:

• IT automation and management

• Business process automation

• Robotic process automation (RPA)

• IT security and compliance

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and operations

• DevOps, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), testing, software development life cycle (SDLC), agile methodology

• Hybrid cloud, public cloud, and private cloud

• Containers and Kubernetes

• Ability to present the business value of technology solutions

• Consumption pricing models; software subscriptions and licenses

• Understanding of Red Hat’s software portfolio and competitive offerings

The Red Hat Sales team seeks an Associate Account Solution Architect to join us in our North Sydney office. In this role, you will be assigned Enterprise accounts for Red Hat in the Telecommunications Industry. Working with a Sales Account Executive and Senior Account Solution Architect, you’ll create possibilities, solve problems and build long-lasting relationships and expand our business in key accounts. You will help our customers adopt solutions across the Red Hat portfolio, giving them a competitive advantage. You will develop your technical knowledge, skills with open source software, and understanding of customer business processes, to help identify and support solutions across multiple technology platforms. You will need excellent communication and people skills and be prepared to operate as a dedicated team player.

What will you do

• Work in close partnership with the Senior Account Solution Architect and wider sales team to develop recommendations for the design and implementation of complex technology offerings and business solutions to help the team achieve sales targets

• Participate in sustaining healthy relationships with existing/prospective customers; you will educate them about Red Hat products, help resolve problems and challenges in a timely manner, and demonstrate constant curiosity about their business structure and operations.

• Contribute to the design, building, and presentation of solutions to customers

• Facilitate the technical validation process with customers, including product and solution presentations, workshops and demonstrations, technical deep dive sessions proofs of concept

• Follow the guidance and mentoring of the Senior Account Solution Architect to ensure an excellent customer experience with our products and services

• Work to become established as a trusted subject matter expert for the customers, gain the confidence of IT professionals, and build valuable relationships with technical business stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Ability to work under instruction, meet deadlines and be held accountable for assigned activities/tasks.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working as a sales engineer, consultant, solution architect or in a relevant technology-focused role

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, plus experience delivering technical business presentations

Red Hat is hiring a Senior Specialist Solution Architect (Automation) to drive enterprise adoption of its Ansible Automation Platform. In this role, you will be the catalyst creating opportunities, solving problems, and establishing working relationships with customers in our key enterprise accounts, government agencies and service provider partners. You’ll need to possess excellent communication and people skills balanced with technical expertise, passion for open source, and a thorough understanding of business and IT challenges encountered at the enterprise level. Through a series of structured in-person interactions the Specialist Solution Architect will win the trust and confidence of customer engineering, development and operations teams by aligning their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of the Ansible Automation Platform.

What you will do:

• Act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from presales to post-sales implementation, ensuring successful deployments.

• Lead technical validation through demos, workshops, and pilot projects to align customer needs with Ansible capabilities.

• Develop reusable solution frameworks and content to empower sales teams and standardize customer outcomes.

• Collaborate with product teams to enhance customer experience and advocate for customer needs internally.

• Assist your team with responding to RFPs for customer success

What you will bring:

Technical Skills:

• Expertise in Ansible Automation Platform (certifications preferred) and tools like Puppet/Chef/SaltStack/Terraform. Strong hands on skill.

• 6+ years in automation; 5-10 years in architecture/development/consulting roles.

• Proficiency in Linux (RHEL/Satellite), Cisco network automation, and DevOps methodologies.

Business Skills:

• Ability to engage C-level stakeholders, address enterprise IT challenges, and propose cross-platform solutions.

• Experience building relationships across large IT organizations and managing end-to-end proof-of-concept processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Red Hat certifications (RHCE, Ansible Specialist, Architect) and a degree in Computer Science/Engineering.

• Thought leadership through industry contributions (whitepapers, conferences, etc.) and staying updated on automation trends.