Red hat OpenShift Platform Senior Specialist Solution Architect 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

349577325

What you will do

• Discover and analyze customers' business and technical problems, and design the appropriate Red Hat solution that aligns to their needs.

• Provide technical leadership to Red Hat account teams and customers through sales presentations, product demonstrations, workshops and proofs of concept.

• Utilize your technical expertise to assist sales teams in answering customer questions.

• Form strategic business and technical relationships within each customer organization to identify new opportunities.

• Own and attain a bookings quota by utilizing your expertise to contribute to the success of our Account Teams in closing sales opportunities.

• Share your expertise by contributing to documentation (e.g., wikis, quick-start guides, blog posts, and white papers), developing reusable assets (e.g., demonstrations, workshops) and presenting at conferences and industry events.

• Collaborate broadly with Red Hat Engineering and Business Units, Professional Services, Sales teams and partners to ensure excellent customer experience with our offerings and solutions.

What you will bring

• Experience in sales engineering, consulting, IT architecture, or equivalent in supporting large organizations.

• Excellent communication, presentation, documentation and problem solving skills.

• Positive team player attitude and strong desire to make our customers successful.

• Ability to understand customers' challenges, requirements and technical issues and collaborate to address those with the appropriate technologies and solutions.

• Knowledge of Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), or a RHEL derivative, as well as related technologies.

• Knowledge of virtualization technologies for application deployment and operations like VMware vSphere, KVM, etc.

• Experience with Kubernetes deployments in large organizations.

• Knowledge of cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies like Red Hat OpenShift or related products and solutions.

• Knowledge of DevOps from the technology point of view.

• Familiarity with the design and operation of medium to large-scale enterprise and cloud infrastructures, databases and application systems with high-availability requirements. Extensive experience with the application life cycle in traditional environments

• Fluent language skills in Dutch and English

• Willingness to travel within the region.

One or more of the following is a plus

• Experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Terraform.

• Experience with management, logging and observability products and solutions.

• Experience or certification with any public cloud provider.

• Any Red Hat certification.