Consulting Platform Architect

Red Hat Consulting is seeking a Consulting Platform Architect specialized in Openshift/Openstack to join our regional consulting practice. The primary responsibility of the Consulting Platform Architect is to passionately drive the adoption of Red Hat's solution in our key customers and key system integrator partners. Through a series of interactions both in-person and remote, the Architect will win the trust and confidence of engineering, development, and operations teams by aligning their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of the solution.

What you will do:

• Win the confidence of prospective customers through successful delivery of discovery, analysis, and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s use cases and architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.
• Design and scope delivery projects, leading consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments.
• Create and deliver content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell, service, and support our solutions at scale.
• Work closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat’s products.
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.

What will you bring:

• Broad and deep technical experience with container, virtualization, and cloud technologies (OpenStack and Openshift), and infrastructure software automation (Ansible).
• Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior business executives.
• Knowledge of one or more communications service provider markets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Solutions sales mentality in an environment with multiple offerings and services.
• Willingness to travel weekly to customer locations throughout Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf Region.