Senior Specialist Solution Architect - OpenShift, EMEA

** About the Job:
** Red Hat’s EMEA Ecosystem Technical Sales team is looking for a Senior Specialist Solution Architect with specific skills and experience in Kubernetes and Open Shift to join us in Italy, Spain or Sweden.

You will play a crucial role in providing deep technical presales expertise and experience to support the execution of Red Hat’s Hybrid Cloud and Open Shift Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy.

Your primary focus will be to help progress our partners’ experience with Red Hat’s Open Shift platform from evaluation candidate to their preferred choice for the development, provisioning, and support of cloud-native workloads and applications based on open source. We call this achieving the ‘technical win’.To get there you will need to be able to confidently articulate Red Hat’s value proposition to leadership, platform engineers, developers, and IT operations teams at our partners and, potentially, their end customers.

This could entail business-value conversations, technical architecture walk-throughs, customer-facing technical workshops, helping partners set up labs to rapidly prototype use cases and providing guidance on best practices using our platforms.

You’ll be collaborating with a range of key business and technical stakeholders, including senior leadership, platform engineers, developers, and IT teams, so your ability to tailor your message and content accordingly will be essential. You’ll be joining a partner ecosystem team that includes sales specialists, solution architects, and partner managers, all working with you to ensure positive partner experiences.

You’ll be able to collaborate with a global community of Open Shift specialists, including other SSAs, the Hybrid Cloud business unit and Engineering, to test, document, and effectively demonstrate new features, share learning and best practices and provide feedback based on your real-world field experiences.

You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly will be essential. This is a remote job but should be within a reasonable commuting distance from an EMEA Red Hat office.
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* What you will do:

*** Work with Ecosystem Solution Architects, Partner Account Managers and Sales Specialists to identify challenges and blockers to drive Red Hat Open Shift within new and existing partners.
* Plan, design, and implement container platform systems with partners; applying the ability to develop high and low-level designs and architectures based on Open Shift, including building and installing clusters leveraging additional support and resources from Red Hat as required.
* Drive adoption of Red Hat Open Shift platforms by assisting ecosystem solution architects, supporting partner-led customer opportunities and partner development initiatives, with technical deep dives, proofs of concept, “bake-offs”, internal sprints, hackathons, and development of partner vertical-specific solutions covering Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (RH ACM) and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RH ACS).
* Identify partner Platform and Dev Ops stakeholders, acting as a technical advocate within both their line-of-business and internal teams.
* Work closely with the Hybrid Cloud business unit and engineering teams, providing a market feedback loop on the product and solutions.
* Engage in community outreach and partner advocacy activities including conference speaking, blog posts, and other public contributions.
** What you will bring:
** SME with 4+ years of hands-on experience in one of the following areas:
* Platform Engineering and Developer Experience, including:
* Git Ops workflows, and Platform Engineering principles to enhance developer experience.
* Building cloud-native applications and understanding software engineering practices (e.g., microservices, 12-factor apps).
* Kubernetes (preferably Open Shift),  Architecture design, including:
* Previous successful experience in platform systems design, with the ability to architect, build, and install clusters, and explain high and low-level designs based on Kubernetes based distributions.
* Experience with CI/CD solutions in the context of Dev Ops including…