Senior Automation/Infra Architect - BeNeLux

at  Red Hat Inc

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Automation/Infra Architect with infrastructure and automation experience to join our team of open source experts in BeNeLux, with focus in the Netherlands.
In this role, you will work as part of a fast-growing team at the forefront of helping customers guide digital transformation and modern IT architectures as they grow in existing and new markets. You’ll be responsible for providing technical leadership to small to medium-sized project teams while ensuring the quality of customer deliverables for one or more projects.
You’ll apply well-developed technology, consulting, business, and process expertise in the implementation of quality work while actively coaching and mentoring others. You’ll need to be proficient in building good customer relationships because you will often play a key role in managing customer expectations. As a Senior Automation Architect, you will represent Red Hat in your customer engagements and at technical forums, speaking to audiences varying from customer architects, engineers, and developers to community user groups about Red Hat’s technologies, solutions, and services.

What you will do:

• Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing the technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Learn new technologies and apply these concepts to customer needs
• Adapt to changing customer requirements
• Become a respected and trusted subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing their architectural, technical, development, and strategic IT requirements
• Implement and integrate Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Satellite, while further learning and developing your skills in Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat OpenShift
• Define overall system architectures, manage software specification, installation, and configuration, and design, test, and deploy Red Hat’s open source solutions - Work with senior associates to promote the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time to market
• Develop , Scope and implement automation and integration for our customers’ cloud and system infrastructure solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals
• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including quality assurance (QA)
• Participate in mentoring and knowledge transfer to customers - Contribute your knowledge and experience back into the wider Red Hat community for the benefit of other teams and customers

What you will bring:

• 3+ years of experience working with enterprise customers on a range of infrastructure and deployment projects in an on-site capacity
• Experience implementing virtualization technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments
• 3+ years of experience working as a UNIX, Linux, or virtual infrastructure engineer or system administrator
• Excellent knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on a delivery level
• Technical knowledge of automation tools like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform; Puppet, Chef, and Terraform are nice to have
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification and /or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification is a plus
• Fluency in Dutch and English is mandatory
• Willingness to travel up to 25-50% across the region

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• Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing the technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Learn new technologies and apply these concepts to customer needs
• Adapt to changing customer requirements
• Become a respected and trusted subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing their architectural, technical, development, and strategic IT requirements
• Implement and integrate Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Satellite, while further learning and developing your skills in Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat OpenShift
• Define overall system architectures, manage software specification, installation, and configuration, and design, test, and deploy Red Hat’s open source solutions - Work with senior associates to promote the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time to market
• Develop , Scope and implement automation and integration for our customers’ cloud and system infrastructure solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals
• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including quality assurance (QA)
• Participate in mentoring and knowledge transfer to customers - Contribute your knowledge and experience back into the wider Red Hat community for the benefit of other teams and customer