Overview:

Crossvale Europe is looking for passionate individuals to make meaningful contributions to some of today’s most complex problems. The Red Hat Architect will be responsible for designing, installing and configuring the Red Hat OpenShift product.  You’ll have an opportunity to work with emerging technologies and apply them to enterprise level organizations. We are committed to developing our engineers skills and creating an environment of success around trust and teamwork.

Containerized enterprise solutions deployed to on-prem, hybrid cloud, and public cloud infrastructure are the future of technology. Crossvale is a Red Hat Premier Partner and together we provide best in class solutions to strategic customers across the UK and Europe markets.

The individual will be part of a team dedicated to the sale and delivery of complex solutions or services to businesses. An exceptional Red Hat Architect must have extensive knowledge of the Crossvale and Red Hat’s products and services and must understand how they can be applied to bring customers success and value.  

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Providing pre-sales technical assistance and product education. 
• Help in researching and developing new products. 
• Participate and lead technical webinar presentations. 
• Prepare and deliver technical presentations explaining products or services to customers and potential customers. 
• Demonstrating how a product will meet client needs. 
• Collaborate with sales to understand customer and provide sales support. 
• Identify and resolve customer technical objections, prescriptively guiding them. 
• Install and configure products to meet customer needs. 
• Take full responsibility for the technical aspects of the sales cycle including general evangelism, introductory meetings, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional supporting technical resources. 

Specific position duties: 

• Work with customers to understand their specific needs and propose product/ services. 
• Work with senior leadership at clients to ensure client needs are met. 
• Continuously develop relationships at the “implementation” level within each customer relationship. 
• Develop technical solutions for client-specific use cases. 
• Install and configure OpenShift in a variety of configurations. 
• Install, configure and prepare core Ansible playbooks, based on client requirements. 
• Install and configure OpenShift supporting products, such as Satellite, Tower, Insights, SSO. 
• Configure underlying storage and security components based upon specific client needs. 
• Migrate and establish workloads on OpenShift. 
• Collaborate with clients to fine tune cluster configuration and allocation. 
• Some travel required.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or MIS/IT or equivalent experience 

Desired Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of experience working as a sales engineer, solutions architect, or in an equivalent role with large enterprise accounts 
• 4+ years in a professional senior technical role such as technical lead, team lead, architect, or any other hands on leadership role. 
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with emerging technology in areas where Red Hat competes including DevOps, microservices, cloud platforms, software-defined storage, container platform and orchestration, and virtualization including NFV 
• Background in at least two of the following technologies will be required:  Red Hat JBoss EAP; OpenShift, OpenStack, Fuse, RHEL 7/8 
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud infrastructure on/with a major cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, GCP 

 Position Skills / Systems / Concepts: 

Programming Languages

• Java / JavaScript / PHP / Python 

Systems 

• RHEL, VMWare, OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes 

Components 

• Ansible, KeyCloak, Grafana, Quay 

Concepts  

• Containers, DevOps, CICD, DevSecOps, SSO, Hybrid Cloud

Added Perks:  

• Employment security with a growing global company.
• Training  – certification reimbursement, access to Red Hat’s learning portal, paid training hours. 
• Opportunities to develop experience across multiple platforms; Red Hat, AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Career progression opportunities.
• English skills development through working with a global company.
• Exposure to different clients in various verticals.  

Crossvale is an “equal opportunity employer.” Crossvale will not discriminate and will ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex.