[Hiring] Principal Architect @Red River

Role Description

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenStack and OpenShift Virtualization Senior Principal Architect with deep technical, strategic, and business leadership in modern infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of complex solutions that help customers modernize their IT environments and migrate from legacy virtualization platforms to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

You will work directly with customer architecture, development, and operations teams to understand their challenges and demonstrate how OpenShift, as a modern infrastructure platform, can enhance operational efficiency, developer productivity, and business continuity. You will serve as a subject matter expert, delivering workshops, proofs of concept, and tailored demonstrations that articulate the value of a unified platform for both containers and virtual machines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a senior technology role like enterprise architecture, consulting, or sales engineering, with a focus on large-scale infrastructure solutions and platform adoption.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM, VMware vSphere, or libvirt, including application deployment and operations.
• Significant experience with Kubernetes and container platform deployments in large organizations, preferably with Red Hat OpenShift. Direct, practical experience with OpenShift Virtualization and migrating virtual machines is essential.
• Deep experience with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, including its core components, architecture, and production deployment considerations.
• Deep datacenter experience with compute, storage, and networking integration. Knowledge of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies such as OVN, NSX-T, or Cisco ACI is required.
• Deep knowledge of Linux operating systems, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or its derivatives, in production enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand customer challenges and build long-lasting relationships.
• Willingness to travel to customer locations regularly.

Requirements

• Experience with automation frameworks and tools like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Red Hat certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization, RHCA, RHCE).
• Experience with one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience in a consulting or professional services role for a major software company.