Red hat Technical Account Manager – Middleware 

United States, Ohio, Kent 

368422298

What you will do:

• Become a Red Hat technical ambassador, working closely with a small number of customers using Middleware technologies; develop relationships with key business and IT stakeholders, including customer managers and technical associates

• Deliver key portfolio updates and assist customers with upgrades of our offerings; advise customers on technology changes, mitigation strategies, and potential disruptions to their service

• Conduct technical investigations of customer issues to find root causes and solutions on your own or through collaboration with fellow Red Hatters and customer teams

• Provide advice and guidance to customers about their current and future use of Red Hat’s offerings

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

• Manage customer cases and maintain clear and concise case and customer documentation; create customer engagement plans

• Handle customer escalations with Red Hat and customer teams

• Engage with Red Hat’s engineering teams to help develop solutions, based on customer engagements as well as personal experience, that will guide product adoption

• Analyze and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer leadership

• Deliver trainings and presentations to customer associates

• Travel, as necessary, to visit customers or attend internal events

• Collaborate with third-party hardware and software vendors

What you will bring:

• Combination of technical and customer-facing skills and the desire to embrace and develop both

• Prior professional experience in a support, development, engineering, or quality assurance (QA) organization, including technical and communication skills

• Ability to manage and grow existing enterprise customer relationships by providing excellent customer experience

• Growth mindset and willingness to learn (as part of your onboarding and further development process, you are expected to obtain specific technology certifications such as RHCE/OCP/OSP/Ansible.)

• Native level Spanish Language skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; ability to explain complex information, such as aligning Red Hat’s offerings to customer needs or use cases, to customers in straightforward terms

• Effective collaboration skills for working with internal and external associates; ability to manage internal and external communication and prioritize tasks according to their importance or urgency

• Interest in developing technical skills and future development into OCP/ Ansible/ RHEL direction

Middleware TAM Technical Skills

• Knowledge of the JEE/Jakarta platform

• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale Java application issues through configuration, log analysis, thread stack, heap dump analysis, and JVM analysis; ability to set up an action plan based on this data

• Practical experience with Java middleware technologies and offerings like application servers, messaging, integration, etc.

• Java coding and development experience

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with API management systems like Red Hat 3Scale API Management

• Event streaming tools like Kafka or similar

• Professional Java coding and development experience

• Practical experience with JBoss EAP and JBCS HTTP server

• Openshift general knowledge

• Maven experience

• Experience automating Middleware using Ansible

• Experience with Single Sign on software, especially with Keycloak.