Red hat Principal Architect 

Australia 

895750457

What will you do:

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions

• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments

• Lead the discovery, architecture, design, and implementation of application prototypes in our delivery of solutions using modern application development practices and emerging open source technologies

• Supports the account team with long term service program knowledge and experience

• Acts as primary interface to the account team from a service projects perspective where there is no project manager assigned

• Drives vision for client for future services needs.

• Understands and operates within the Red Hat business strategy and economic model

• Work as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way - Train and coach team members on technical and non-technical skills

• Present vision, strategy, technology, and roadmaps to executives, technical management, engineers, and operators

• Remain an active coder as this is required during our engagements and maintain deep direct technical knowledge of container management systems (CMSs), application infrastructure, architectures, and development solutions

• Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments

• Actively contribute to and guide the creation of reference architectures, design considerations, and best practices

• Assist in the development of standard reusable consulting service offerings, including the definition of tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates

• Continuously and confidently communicates with c-level stakeholders about the work of the entire projects they belong to

What will you bring:

• 10+ years of experience working as a software architect, consulting architect, or in similar roles

• Proven experience architecting, designing, and developing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology environment - Experience facilitating software design, architecture, and ideation sessions

• Ability to perform customer-facing activities in a fast-paced environment with short timeframes

• Ability to uncover business challenges and develop custom solutions to solve these challenges

• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation

• Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solutions, including Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes

• Experience with or working knowledge of Ansible automation

• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative

• Experience with configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration technologies

• Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work

• Clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models

• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with open source communities

• Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new knowledge into practice

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related technical discipline

• Willingness to travel up to 30% to customer locations throughout ANZ and also globally on occasion, following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English

• The following will be considered a plus:

• Working with some community technologies like Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines, Helm, or Jenkins

• Working with application and infrastructure monitoring