Senior Specialist Solution Architect

Red Hat is hiring a Senior Specialist Solution Architect (Automation) to drive enterprise adoption of its Ansible Automation Platform. In this role, you will be the catalyst creating opportunities, solving problems, and establishing working relationships with customers in our key enterprise accounts, government agencies and service provider partners. You'll need to possess excellent communication and people skills balanced with technical expertise, passion for open source, and a thorough understanding of business and IT challenges encountered at the enterprise level. Through a series of structured in-person interactions the Specialist Solution Architect will win the trust and confidence of customer engineering, development and operations teams by aligning their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of the Ansible Automation Platform.

What You Will Do

• Act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from presales to post-sales implementation, ensuring successful deployments.
• Lead technical validation through demos, workshops, and pilot projects to align customer needs with Ansible capabilities.
• Develop reusable solution frameworks and content to empower sales teams and standardize customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with product teams to enhance customer experience and advocate for customer needs internally.
• Assist your team with responding to RFPs for customer success

Technical Skills
What you will bring:

• Expertise in Ansible Automation Platform (certifications preferred) and tools like Puppet/Chef/SaltStack/Terraform. Strong hands on skill.
• 6+ years in automation; 5-10 years in architecture/development/consulting roles.
• Proficiency in Linux (RHEL/Satellite), Cisco network automation, and DevOps methodologies.

Business Skills

• Ability to engage C-level stakeholders, address enterprise IT challenges, and propose cross-platform solutions.
• Experience building relationships across large IT organizations and managing end-to-end proof-of-concept processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Red Hat certifications (RHCE, Ansible Specialist, Architect) and a degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Thought leadership through industry contributions (whitepapers, conferences, etc.) and staying updated on automation trends.

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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