About the Role
The Consulting team is looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to join us in Qatar. In this role, you will serve as a subject-matter expert in our infrastructure and cloud technology. You'll address inquiries regarding best practices around automation, reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups while leading the on-site delivery and implementation of technology that ensures freedom, flexibility, and outstanding performance. You will develop a deep understanding of our customers' infrastructures and business issues, making recommendations tailored to their environments. This is a great opportunity to build on your core knowledge while working in a fast-paced environment promoting our solutions. We are seeking candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure and architecture design topics. Support for relocation to Qatar will be provided for the successful candidate.
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What You Will Do
- Win the confidence of prospective customers by successfully delivering discovery, analysis, and design workshops that influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions to align with our solutions.
- Design and scope delivery projects while leading consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments.
- Create and deliver content that enables the broader organization to sell (pre-sales), service (consulting), and support (CEE) our solutions at scale.
- Collaborate closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with our products.
- Contribute to developing repeatable methodologies and tools aimed at scaling our services capabilities, promoting repeatable customer engagements, and minimizing delivery risk.
- Demonstrate thought leadership within the community by producing high-quality white papers, webinars, and speaking at industry-leading conferences.
What You Will Bring
- Background in the company Enterprise Linux, including command line skills and Linux network configuration.
- Experience with Containers, container management utilities, and debugging containers; familiarity with Quay.
- Skills in package management, both via the command line interface and with the company Satellite.
- Hands-on knowledge of the company OpenShift Container Platform (OCP is a prerequisite).
- Architecture skills focused on datacenter infrastructure, including networking, compute, and storage.
- Compute skills related to Lights-Out-Management (LOM) including IPMI and Redfish, UEFI/BIOS, and server hardware.
- Networking skills encompassing Software Defined Networking (SDN), Layer 2 (ARP, MAC), Layer 3 (TCP, UDP), and Layer 4 (IP), as well as Open Virtual Switch (OVS).
- Storage skills related to Software Defined Storage (SDS) such as Ceph, SAN, and NAS.
- Experience with Ansible, including playbooks and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols, particularly the company IDM and Active Directory.
- Experience with network/datacenter design, including the elaboration of design and architecture documents as well as scoping and discovery sessions.
