Sr Technical Developer Advocate - Automation jobs at Red Hat in United States, Raleigh

What you will do:

During your first year as a Junior Technical Account Manager, you’ll participate in the FASTER Program, Field Accelerator for Sales and Technical Emerging Roles (we do love a good acronym), a comprehensive 12-month onboarding and development program designed to provide you with the deep technical knowledge, customer engagement skills, and industry insights needed to excel. You'll gain hands-on experience with Red Hat's diverse portfolio, learn from seasoned experts, and contribute to real-world customer solutions from day one. This cohort-based program starts in September 2026. Through this experience, you will:

• Discover all about Red Hat and how we support our customers in addressing their technical, developmental, and strategic business challenges with our comprehensive portfolio and services

• Build a strong support network of your Peers, Manager, Mentor, and other Red Hatters within and outside of your team

• Develop technical skills in the Red Hat portfolio that span Cloud, Automation, and AI solutions by completing training programs and attaining industry-recognized certifications

• Shadow and assist more experienced members as they deliver strategic technical and architectural guidance to key customers

• Enhance your professional capabilities through real-world experiences working directly with customers and participating in skill development opportunities.

• Focus on your personal and professional development as you grow your career at Red Hat.

• Support the Sales organizations’ goals to deliver customer business value, building enterprise IT solutions based on Red Hat platforms that create a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive foundation for any enterprise.

As a Junior Technical Account Manager, you will also:

• Respond to customer inquiries and requests, following established procedures

• Document customer interactions and track issue resolution progress in designated systems

• Escalate complex technical issues to senior team members for guidance and resolution

• Participate in internal training programs to develop product knowledge and technical skills

• Perform customer onboarding and account maintenance tasks with the assistance of senior team members

• Proactively identify and document known solutions for common technical challenges

• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of knowledge base articles and support documentation

What you will bring

• Passion and curiosity for open source technology, desire to build a career within the Tech industry, and expertise in emerging technologies

• Strong technical skills in computer science, IT, AI, or related fields, gained through university programs, upskilling boot camps, certificate programs, or military experience

• Demonstrated experience applying technical troubleshooting, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills with an attentive eye for detail in an enterprise IT-related project, showcasing the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues

• Understand fundamental concepts of network communication and configuration

• Motivation to engage in self-directed learning on new technologies

• Demonstrated customer service skills and desire to be customer-focused, understanding customer needs, and helping them achieve their goals

• Effective communication (written and verbal), active listening and presentation skills

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with internal teams and external customers

• Some exposure to scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) or programming languages (e.g., Java, Go) is a plus

• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Design a program of need to know commands and understanding of Linux.

• Create and deliver external content like labs, blogs, how-to videos, tech tips, demos, papers, articles, etc.

• Create and deliver concept and technical presentations to Red Hat audiences

• Have an idea about how we can better show up with our product? Programatize that and do it!

Required skills:

• Technical background, with expertise in Linux

• Experience writing software on Linux (Python, node.js, php, or other language runtime)

• Desire to create high-quality, interesting, compelling technical content

• Success in a collaborative, technical environment.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

The following are considered a plus:

• Virtualization, Linux administration, using cloud based instances

The position i open as remote/hybrid/onsite for our entities in Poland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Czechia.

What will you do:

• Diagnose problems, troubleshoot the issues, and develop solutions to technical issues

• Provide customers with a unique experience and amaze them with the quality of Red Hat support

• Engage and collaborate with in-house engineers and developers around the world to promote creative solutions and improve customer satisfaction

• Contribute to the global Red Hat knowledge management system by writing and publishing blog posts, whitepapers, and knowledge-base articles that deliver technical knowledge to our customers and the community

• Collaborate with your colleagues on various topics; be a respected member of the global team

• Constantly work on your skills and keep up with the latest technology trends

• Contribute to the open-source community and to product code, if you wish to

What will you bring:

• Knowledge of SSO technologies including SAML, Kerberos, OAuth, and OpenID Connect

• Experience with application server solutions like JBoss, Wildfly, or any other application WebServer

• Knowledge of LDAP servers like Active Directory, Red Hat Directory Server, or any LDAP server

• Experience with public key infrastructure (PKI)

• Familiarity with Java development, JDK utility key tool or OpenSSL, and Java security technologies

• Experience with technologies like Docker, containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift is a plus

• Excellent troubleshooting skills; passion for problem-solving and investigation

• Ability to work with conflicting priorities, take initiative, and maintain a customer-centric focus

• Ability and willingness to learn new open-source middleware technologies

• Clear and effective English communication skills and ability to communicate courteously and effectively with customers, third-party vendors, and Red Hat associates

• Experience in Customer Support or in consulting

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with identity and access management solutions like Keycloak or any certified OpenID connect providers

• Experience with the JEE platform orQuarkus Frameworkand application server technologies like Web Services, Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Hibernate, Java Message Service (JMS), JEE Security, etc.

What you will do

• Coordinate reporting across multiple teams, dealing with all aspects of the program and the release process of our offerings.

• Understand and proactively inform teams of schedules for active and upcoming releases or key milestones of our offerings.

• Identify program challenges and drive risk management activities and mitigation plans.

• Proactively direct potential issues and obstacles to appropriate functional teams. Highlight and track dependencies that cross teams or functions.

• Lead strategic planning activities with the cross-functional stakeholders to design an achievable program with inclusive and transparent guidance.

• Develop and nurture key relationships and the engagement with stakeholders from multiple functional groups.

• Foster collaboration, trust, and accountability for departmental and cross-functional teams.

• Identify and enable continuous improvements. Be both flexible and adaptable to changing demands on the program based on the needs of the business.

• Evaluate initiative performance and health metrics and facilitate adjustments.

• Support and maintain multi product reporting rollups for executive review.

What you will bring

• Program Management Fundamentals: Proficiency in basic project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall), including planning, scheduling, risk management, and resource allocation.

• Communication (Written & Verbal): Excellent ability to articulate complex technical and programmatic information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences (engineers, product, leadership).

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skill in working effectively with various teams (engineering, product, design, QA, etc.) to align goals and drive progress.

• Problem-Solving: Capacity to identify, analyze, and resolve issues and roadblocks that arise during program execution.

• Stakeholder Management: Ability to identify, engage, and manage expectations of various stakeholders, ensuring their needs are considered and communicated.

• Data Analysis & Metrics: Understanding of key performance indicators (KPIs) and the ability to track, analyze, and report on program progress and health.

• Meeting Facilitation: Skill in leading effective meetings, setting agendas, driving discussions, capturing action items, and ensuring follow-through.

• Adaptability & Flexibility: Readiness to adjust to changing priorities, technical challenges, and evolving program requirements.

• Leadership (Informal): Ability to influence and motivate teams without direct authority, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.

The salary range for this position is $94,550.00 - $151,170.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

What you will do:

• Design and implement new features and bug fixes to provide authentication and authorization for Ansible Automation Platform

• Collaborate with various teams to identify the scope of work and use tools such as Jira to document requirements

• Create unit and integration tests to verify that developed software meets the requirements

• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to juniors and peers on technical designs, merge requests, etc.

• Provide escalation level troubleshooting and timely resolution of system, network and infrastructure issues.

• Help mentor and learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment

• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling

• Regularly participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives

What you will bring:

• Desire to lead from technical design through execution

• Significant experience with Python, Django and Django Rest Framework

• Experience with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest

• Deep knowledge in one or more areas of identity and access management such as authentication, authorization, etc. ​​

• Comfortable working in a Linux-based environment

• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL

• Experience with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker/Docker Compose, and Podman

• Experience working on large-scale projects utilizing version control with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to drive discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences, and an ability to describe projects that you or the team is working on with confidence and depth of understanding.

• An aptitude for jumping in to help unblock, mentor and learn from others

• An agile mindset, with openness and flexibility to pivot towards the highest priority work items as needed

The following is considered a plus:

• Knowledge of industry standard security concepts and protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, and RBAC.

• Proficient with Envoy Proxy (including building filters, controlling envoy via API, and monitoring)

• Hands-on experience using Ansible for automating tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, etc.

• Working knowledge of message queuing technologies such as Redis.

• Contributor to one or more open-source projects

The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

What will you do:

• Take responsibility for Virtualization testing of virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) devices, debug and supervise the results in a timely manner, as well as provide complete and accurate test status reports to all stakeholders

• Research and implement new APIs and features to be automated, develop new automated and manual cases as well as create and review test plans

• Maintain awareness of development engineering activities within the upstream vTPM communities ensuring the testability of the environments for Linux host, Linux guest, and Windows guest

• Collaborate and contribute to upstream TPM testing communities such as ibmtss and linux-vtpm-tests

• Develop and maintain automation testing framework in Python and write and review patches on GitHub

• Develop and maintain CI and CD tools

• Recognize the product quality risks by analyzing and prioritizing then identify tests required to mitigate them

• Focus on delivering customer value by analyzing feedback and enhancing test coverage

• Continuously improve testing, docs, processes, and tools

What will you bring:

• 4+ years working experience in software testing or development for Linux systems

• Active scripting and solid programming skills using Python for 2 years+; knowledgeable of standard and commonly used libraries and frameworks and best practices in coding

• Meaningful work experience in virtualization (KVM, QEMU, libvirt, cloud or container and similar) is a plus

• Relevant security (OpenSSL/SELinux) and cryptography skills, with practical experience desirable

• Past experience in working with Open-Source communities and/or global teams is desirable

• Required Full English proficiency (verbal and written)

About The Job

You will forge relationships with your partners, develop a deep technical understanding of their Red Hat implementation, share technical best practices, and act as point of contact for any major incidents, managing the partner’s expectations and communications through resolution of such incidents. You will tailor support for each partner, work closely with the extended virtual account team and advocate on their behalf. At the same time, you'll work closely with our engineering, R&D, product management, and technical support teams to debug, test, and resolve issues. As a PTAM, you will be supported in your career with continuous learning offerings, certification support, and challenging growth opportunities.

What You Will Do

• Develop relationships with key business and IT stakeholders and become an expert on a partner’s solutions by understanding their top business goals and priorities

• Perform technical reviews and share knowledge to proactively identify and prevent issues

• Support technology partners implementing automated and containerized cloud application platform solutions

• Learn new technologies quickly, including topics like container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, and microservices on container platforms

• Establish and maintain parity with Red Hat cloud technologies strategy

• Engage product engineering teams to help develop solution patterns, based on partner engagements, as well as personal experience, that drive platform adoption

• Communicate how specific Red Hat cloud solutions and our cloud roadmap align to partner use cases

• Forewarn partners of technology changes or potential disruptions to their service and advise on mitigation strategies

• Provide advice and guidance to partners about current and future Red Hat products

• Identify training opportunities and work with our learning and enablement teams to provide targeted training to partner support personnel

• Troubleshoot technical issues and drive issue escalation with Red Hat, partner and customer teams

• Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance to leadership

• Manage partner support cases and maintain clear and concise case documentation

• Create partner engagement plans and keep documentation relevant to a partner's solution updated

• Manage and grow partner relationships by delivering attentive, relationship-based support

• Build a sense of trust with partners and serve as their advocate within Red Hat

• Contribute internally to the Red Hat team, share knowledge and best practices with team members, contribute to internal projects and initiatives, and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and mentor for specific technical or process areas

• Travel, as necessary, to visit partners and attend events

What You Will Bring

• Hands-on experience with operating Kubernetes or Kubernetes-based platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

• Expertise with containers and container management

• 3+ years of Linux or UNIX system administration experience

• Experience with cloud or server virtualization

• Experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative

• Ability to manage and grow existing enterprise partner relationships by delivering proactive, relationship-based support

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; ability to convey complex information to partners clearly and concisely

• Competent comprehension of enterprise architecture and strategic business drivers

• Ability to manage multiple issues and projects with an eye for detail

• Direct experience with a variety of technology partners

• Experience with training and presentation delivery

The following are considered a plus

• Experience in a support, operations, development, engineering, or quality assurance organization

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or equivalent experience

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent experience

• Experience with Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud is a plus

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related discipline, preferably computer science or engineering

• Experience working in DevOps environments

• Prior experience in a technical leadership or mentorship role

• Technical knowledge of the Linux kernel and Linux file system

• Expertise with enterprise cloud solutions such as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

• Expertise with cloud management (Red Hat CloudForms, Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc) and IT Automation (Red Hat Ansible)

• Software engineering background; experience with RPM-based Linux and Java technologies

• Experience containerizing applications for deployment in cloud environments

• Good comprehension of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) concepts

• Familiarity with source code management tools like Git or SVN

• Knowledge of OpenShift Container Storage and OpenShift Data Foundation

• Experience in software-defined storage technologies like, Ceph, Gluster, or other enterprise storage platforms

• Experience in storage configuration, deployment, administration

The salary range for this position is $94,550.00 - $151,170.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave