Red hat Senior Principal Chief Architect 

United States, Virginia, Richmond 

60114982

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert to the SA/SSA community in respective geography, ensuring that architectural patterns are reused in order to create Sales, Support, and Engineering efficiencies.

• Understand both how to define an architecture but also how to code as a reusable GitOps Pattern, utilizing tools like Helm or Ansible.

• Be able to debug code written by other engineers and, when needed, propose improvements (in the form of pull requests).

• Serve as a key facilitator uniting sellers with Open Source community practices, enabling the sharing of that knowledge inside and outside of our company.

• Participate in Executive Briefing Centre (EBC) sessions to capture future level requirements and report them in a consistent manner through the Field Feedback Forum.

• Review of any technical architecture proposals in the region before they are sent by the Solution Architect or SSA to their customers.

• Understand and articulate the business requirements of customers and partners and what are their drivers for working with Red Hat.

Required Skills

• Experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud platforms

• Must have deep experience with application networking and security, and a good understanding of concepts and tools such as service mesh, mTLS, container networking interface, SPIFFE/SPIRE

• Ability to speak, write, and share insights on behalf of Red Hat in a variety of scenarios, including both internal and external audiences (i.e., should be able to serve as a media spokesperson for their geography).

• Strong ability to define and describe complex domain architecture from a logical, functional, and technical perspective.

• Implement the deployment of those architecture following a DevOps and GitOps pattern

• Contribute code/configurations in at least two languages such as Python, Go, Helm, Ansible, Rust, or Bash.

Experience Required

• Strong knowledge of Red Hat’s product portfolio from their domain or specialty perspective.

• Demonstrated success with previous customer implementations; ability to engage and expand product cross-sell with customers over time.

• Demonstrated capability in reuse of existing patterns (avoiding bespoke solutions for each customer) and a healthy modularization practice which enables reusability.

The salary range for this position is $189,600.00 - $312,730.00. 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