Principal Ecosystem Business Development Architect - Automotive jobs at Red Hat in Portugal, Miragaia E Marteleira

What you will do:

• Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.

• Lead consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management

• 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.

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 modern telco networks and protocols and their implementation in software based solutions at the architecture and hands-on delivery levels

• Experience designing and delivering cloud and automation technology for telco network platforms via distributed cross-functional teams and with telco-wide deployments

• Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in French and English

• Willingness to travel across the region

• Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus

Job Summary

You’ll help accelerate the development of AI prototypes by ensuring seamless platform integration, CI/CD pipelines, and other critical infrastructure to enable high-speed experimentation and iteration.

What you’ll do

• Platform Support and Optimization: Design and maintain scalable, secure, and efficient platforms to support AI Catalyst team initiatives, ensuring smooth integration of AI models and workflows.

• Infrastructure Management: Provide expertise in Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) for container orchestration, scalable deployments, and real-time operations.

• Partner with the AI Catalyst team to identify bottlenecks, remove blockers, and optimize workflows for faster delivery of AI prototypes.

• Technical Leadership: Lead the implementation of critical systems (APIs, orchestration, observability, deployment) to ensure speed, reliability, and maintainability.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, and design teams to align technical priorities and drive impactful AI initiatives.

• Mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and rapid execution.

• Demonstrate proficiency in Kubernetes for container orchestration and scalable deployments.

• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, velocity, and pragmatic decision-making

• Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.

• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of software engineering experience

• Strong background in Python and background in C, C++, Go or Rust.

• Proficiency in RHEL or other Linux distributions.

• Communication Skills: Strong ability to communicate technical tradeoffs and bring clarity to ambiguous situations

• Passion for AI Innovation: Enthusiasm for enabling AI initiatives that drive real-world impact and accelerate prototyping efforts.

• Ability to move fast without compromising quality, thriving in environments where rapid iteration and high ownership are the norm

• PoC Experience: Proven ability to work on and deliver successful Proof of Concepts or initiatives, showcasing the ability to rapidly prototype and validate ideas.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.

• experience with building and packaging Python projects, package managers (dnf, pip), and build systems (cmake, meson)

• experience in working with upstream projects and Open Source communities.

• Experience in early-stage product incubation or 0→1 product delivery

• Contributions to internal AI platforms, model evaluation frameworks, or observability for AI systems

This is a rare opportunity to help shape how our company brings AI innovation to life - bridging research and real-world usage at a moment when speed, safety, and product quality matter most. If you're energized by rapid iteration, high autonomy, and making AI tangible for millions, we’d love to talk.

• Previous experience with hardware acceleration, either generic GPU experience or specific ones, such as CUDA and ROCm

• Knowledge of AI frameworks, such as PyTorch and/or TensorFlow

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration

• Understanding of Open Source development models

• Experience with test-base development and agile/scrum methodologies

In this role, you will drive the strategy, development, and execution of our sovereign platform offerings, ensuring they align with operational sovereignty, regulatory needs, and business demands of our customers. This role requires a deep understanding of on-prem infrastructure, hybrid cloud technologies, regulatory compliance, security frameworks, and market trends in sovereignty concerns. You will work closely with engineering, legal, compliance, and business teams to ensure our cloud solutions meet the highest standards of security, compliance, and performance. This is a great opportunity to develop our strategy for our sovereign cloud offering and work alongside some of the brightest minds in open source.

EMEA - UK and Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Israel

US - Raleigh, Boston are preferences or cities with good airplane connections

What you will do

• Define and execute the product roadmap for sovereign cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with multiple global data residency (e.g., AI Safety, DORA, CRA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CCPA, NIS2), security, and compliance requirements and regulations.

• Work with engineering and product teams to lead the design of scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure and management capabilities and manage product lifecycles.

• Conduct in-depth market analysis to understand customer needs and feedback, competitive landscape, and industry trends, and collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders teams to implement features and enhancements following agile development practices.

• Partner with policy experts to engage with government agencies and regulatory bodies to align product offerings, and collaborate with legal and compliance teams to stay ahead of evolving regulations.

• Define security and compliance requirements and work with cybersecurity teams to ensure encryption, access controls, and data localization measures are in place.

• Support and coordinate audits, risk assessments, and certifications (e.g. ISO 27001, FedRAMP, SOC 2, NIST, SecNumCloud, etc.).

• Build strategic relationships with local infrastructure providers, technology partners, and regulators.

• Evangelize Red Hat’s sovereignty strategy and solution with customers, partners, analysts and media.

• Coordinate with marketing and sales teams to lead product releases, develop go-to-market strategies, manage strategic product positioning, and serve as the main point of contact for stakeholders, managing customer relationships, and feedback.

• Define pricing and business models for regulated infrastructure.

• Drive customer adoption and retention through value-driven product enhancements.

• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success and optimize offerings.

What you will bring

• 15+ years of experience in product management, cloud computing, or related fields.

• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and hybrid cloud environments.

• Strong knowledge of data sovereignty laws, security frameworks, and compliance requirements across multiple markets.

• Experience in regulated industries such as government, healthcare, finance, or defense.

• Proven track record of driving long-term product strategy, roadmaps, and market adoption.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams across engineering, product, sales, and marketing, security, and legal teams.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Experience with security certifications / standards (e.g. ISO 27001, FedRAMP, SOC 2, NIST, SecNumCloud, etc.).

• Experience or knowledge of US EAR/ITAR, EU/UK Dual Use Regulations, or similar laws.

• Knowledge of AI and edge computing in sovereign cloud environments.

• Familiarity with confidential computing and zero-trust security models.

• Familiarity with Red Hat’s portfolio is a plus.

• Willingness to travel up to 25 - 50%

You can find more information about the technology here:

• Automotive SIG (https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/)

• CentOS Automotive SIG Announces New AutoSD Distro

What you will do

• Collaborate with a team to safety certify the platform for Red Hat’s first ever offering of Linux in cars

• Create and adapt Red Hat’s innovative functional safety life cycle

• Conduct assessments of software products

• Collaborate with internal and external assessors to ensure achievement of functional safety

• Conduct reviews to monitor the execution of the processes required for functional safety

• Perform safety impact assessments of software updates, bugs, and key performance indicator changes

• Coach and mentor others to increase functional safety competency

• Support the engineering teams for the functional safety life cycle activities

• Bring your experience with automotive functional safety to discussions about software development and release processes

What you will bring

• Previous experience conducting or assessing against international safety-related standards, e.g. ISO26262 (preferred) certification or other (IEC 61508, DO-178C)

• Previous experience conducting or assessing against international quality-standards for the automotive sector, e.g. IATF 16949, ISO / IEC 33000, CMMI, Automotive SPICE

• Experience with agile software development process, focused on short development cycles with demonstrable progress, and continuous planning with a team of peers

• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

• Familiarity with Linux and modern operating systems concepts

The following are considered a plus:

• Involvement in open source communities and understanding of how open source and free software communities work

• Experience working as an RPM package maintainer

• Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

• Certified competence in functional safety

• Certified competence in Quality Management

• 5+ years of experience conducting assessments of software against ISO 26262

What you will do:

• Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.

• Lead consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management

• 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.

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 modern telco networks and protocols and their implementation in software based solutions at the architecture and hands-on delivery levels

• Experience designing and delivering cloud and automation technology for telco network platforms via distributed cross-functional teams and with telco-wide deployments

• Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in Italian and English

• Willingness to travel across the region

• Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus

You can find more information about the technology here:

• Automotive SIG (https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/)

• CentOS Automotive SIG Announces New AutoSD Distro

What you will do

• Collaborate with a team to safety certify the platform for Red Hat’s first ever offering of Linux in cars

• Create and adapt Red Hat’s innovative functional safety life cycle

• Conduct assessments of software products

• Collaborate with internal and external assessors to ensure achievement of functional safety

• Conduct reviews to monitor the execution of the processes required for functional safety

• Perform safety impact assessments of software updates, bugs, and key performance indicator changes

• Coach and mentor others to increase functional safety competency

• Support the engineering teams for the functional safety life cycle activities

• Bring your experience with automotive functional safety to discussions about software development and release processes

What you will bring

• Previous experience conducting or assessing against international safety-related standards, e.g. ISO26262 (preferred) certification or other (IEC 61508, DO-178C)

• Previous experience conducting or assessing against international quality-standards for the automotive sector, e.g. IATF 16949, ISO / IEC 33000, CMMI, Automotive SPICE

• Experience with agile software development process, focused on short development cycles with demonstrable progress, and continuous planning with a team of peers

• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

• Familiarity with Linux and modern operating systems concepts

The following are considered a plus:

• Involvement in open source communities and understanding of how open source and free software communities work

• Experience working as an RPM package maintainer

• Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

• Certified competence in functional safety

• Certified competence in Quality Management

• 5+ years of experience conducting assessments of software against ISO 26262

Red Hat is hiring a Senior Specialist Solution Architect (Automation) to drive enterprise adoption of its Ansible Automation Platform in SEAK (SEA and Korea). 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.