Red hat Partner Technical Account Manager - OpenShift Container Platform 

United States, Texas, Austin 

6604539

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