OpenShift Architect
About the job
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in Kubernetes platforms and virtualization technologies. In this role, you will act as a t rusted technical leader across both pre-sales and delivery, helping customers define and implement their infrastructure transformation journey.
You will engage early in the sales cycle to understand customer needs, shape solutions, and support proposals. During delivery, you will lead the architecture and implementation of OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies.
By leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, hybrid cloud, and automation practices, you will help customers consolidate infrastructure, modernize datacenters, and adopt a unified platform for VMs and containers
What you will do:
- Engage in pre-sales activities, including customer discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design
- Partner with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, define scope, and build compelling technical proposals
- Support RFP/RFI responses and present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders
- Assess customer infrastructure environments and propose optimized architectures
- Design and implement OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization
- Lead migration initiatives from traditional virtualization platforms to OpenShift
- Provide technical leadership during delivery, ensuring alignment with architectural best practices
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, helping define infrastructure and platform roadmaps
- Collaborate with Product Engineering, Consulting, and Support teams to deliver high-quality solutions
- Drive adoption of automation, DevOps, and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reusable assets, and best practice
What you will bring
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, consulting, or platform engineering roles
- Proven experience in pre-sales or customer-facing roles, supporting complex solution sales cycles
- Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms
- Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM) and migration strategies
- Experience with OpenShift Virtualization or similar approaches to VM modernization
- Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute, storage, networking)
- Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and IaC practices
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including executive-level storytelling
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and architectures
- Fluent in English (written and verbal)
- Red Hat certifications are a plus
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