The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Cloud Architect specialized in Telco to join us in Italy. The primary responsibility of the Red Hat Telco Cloud Architect is to passionately drive the adoption of Red Hat’s solution in our key telco service provider customers, network equipment providers, and key system integrator partners. Through a series of interactions both in-person and remote the Telco Cloud Architect will win the trust and confidence of their engineering, development and operations teams by aligning their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of the solution. The Telco Cloud Architect will have thorough working knowledge and hands-on experience with OpenShift and OpenStack based cloud infrastructures to support applications providing containerized and virtualized network functions (CNF/VNF) to the telco industry. Successful candidates will bring a wealth of industry experience and domain expertise to play a leading role in the design and project delivery of these business critical solutions, and therefore will need a strong working knowledge of Agile project methodologies, as well as DevOps models and technologies.
The Red Hat Telco Cloud Architect will also play a critical role in bringing together cross-functional teams from Red Hat’s product business units, product engineering, support, consulting, and sales to meet the needs of these demanding customers. The Red Hat Telco Cloud Architect will act as a customer advocate with these organizations to architect the right solutions and to ensure that those solutions are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way.
What you will do:
Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.
Lead consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management
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 you will bring:
Prior experience working in a consulting and architecture roles
Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions
Excellent knowledge of modern telco networks and protocols and their implementation in software based solutions at the architecture and hands-on delivery levels
Experience designing and delivering cloud and automation technology for telco network platforms via distributed cross-functional teams and with telco-wide deployments
Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Excellent written and verbal language skills in Italian and English
Willingness to travel across the region
Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus
About Red Hat
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