Red hat Senior Telco Account Solution Architect - & North Africa 

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai 

611075100

Job Summary:

You will help your customers invest in an infrastructure that will give them maximum flexibility and allow them to make their IT and telecommunications infrastructure services faster and more reliable. You will engage, meet, and demonstrate to the telco accounts that Red Hat solutions match their needs and expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Evangelize the value of Red Hat Solutions. Work with Account Executives and collaborate with the extended team to focus on the best manner to address your customer needs

• Define, document, present, and demonstrate how the Red Hat product portfolio can enable next-generation IT and network architectures for telecommunications providers

• Work with the ecosystem to position Red Hat as a key strategic vendor for Telco and IT infrastructures, e.g. ISVS, NEPs, telecommunications, cloud providers, integrators, and hardware vendors

• Deliver expert-level presentations and demonstrations for Red Hat products and solutions in the context of Telco IT operations teams and networks

• Design value-driven architectures and present their application and return on investment (ROI)

• Actively contribute to account plans and strategy sessions. Develop technical account plans

• Maintain and develop new relationships within the assigned accounts, positioning Red Hat at all levels within the customer organization, including C-level executives

• Willingness to travel up to 50%

Required Skills

• Extensive Telco industry knowledge and market insights, with a good understanding of current, new, and future technologies and business directions

• Solid technical skills in IT technologies used in telcos, such as Virtualization, Cloud, Container Platforms, and Microservices

• Understanding of the existing and new technologies used by the telecommunications industries is required; such as 5G, RAN, IoT, SDN, NFV, OSS/BSS

• Excellent presentation skills to both business and technical audiences

• Ability to learn new concepts and new technology quickly

• Reliable, committed, and organized with the ability to handle change easily

• Ability to demonstrate creativity and innovative thinking

• Motivated and result-oriented with the ability to perform within a fast-paced environment

• Fluent English and French language skills

Nice to have

• Fluent Arabic language skills