OpenShift Virtualization Senior Specialist Solution Architect

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Overview
The OpenShift Virtualization Specialist Solution Architect plays a pivotal role in driving the adoption and successful deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in key enterprise accounts, including government agencies, financial services, and service providers.

By building relationships of trust and confidence with customer architecture, development, and operations teams, you will enable organizations to leverage OpenShift as a modern infrastructure platform that enhances operational efficiency, developer productivity, and business continuity.


In this role, you will provide deep technical sales support to execute Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies, articulating the value of OpenShift as an infrastructure platform on bare metal.

You will demonstrate how organizations can use OpenShift to modernize their IT environments, migrate from legacy virtualization platforms utilizing containers, virtualization and advanced networking.

Your expertise will help application teams transition from planning to production on-premises while addressing their unique technical and business needs.


What Will The OpenShift Virtualization Senior SSA Do
Technical expertise: Deliver successful OpenShift Virtualization deep dive technical presentations, workshops, tailored demos and proof of concepts (POCs) for teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds to showcase the capabilities and benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, shape the customer's use cases and architect design decisions to help future customers design the infrastructure corresponding to their business needs.


Customer engagement: Work with the customer Account Executive, Sales Specialist, and Solution Architect to identify challenges and blockers to adoption of OpenShift Virtualization, as well as consumption within new and existing customer accounts.


Collaboration: Work closely with internal product teams, Product Engineering, Professional Services, Global Support, and Sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat solutions.


Coaching and mentoring: Serving as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on OpenShift Virtualization to the Account Teams by assisting in customer engagements, understanding their business needs, providing technical solutions and recommendations and building long-lasting relationships within our key accounts.


Advocacy: Demonstrate thought leadership in cloud-based Virtualization platforms by producing world-class whitepapers, webinars, etc., and speaking at industry-leading conferences.


What Will The OpenShift Virtualization Senior SSA Bring
Extensive knowledge and experience with virtualization technologies for application deployment and operations such as qemu/KVM, VMware vSphere, libvirt etc.


Knowledge of cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies like Red Hat OpenShift or related experience with Kubernetes deployments
Deep datacenter experience with integration, storage, and compute expertise.


Knowledge in Software Define Networking (SDN) technologies such as OVN, NSX-t, Cisco ACI or others.


Deep knowledge about on premise infrastructure design and implementation (Baremetal management, storage systems technologies like FC, iSCSI, NFS, et al, storage vendor systems, switches and network related technologies, et al).


Experience in sales engineering, consulting, IT architecture, or equivalent in supporting large organizations.


Excellent communication, presentation, documentation and problem-solving skills.


Ability to understand customers' challenges, requirements and technical issues and collaborate to address those with the appropriate technologies and solutions.


Fluent language skills in English, Mandarin or Bahasa Indonesia (advantage)
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Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Sales and Business Development
Industries
Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting
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