About the job
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Container Application and Development Architect to join our Hybrid Cloud Accelerator team. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of a modern container platform, help improve our customers' software delivery workflows, and recommend best practices in the area of cloud-native application development using Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) CoreOS, and Red Hat OpenShift. You'll help our customers migrate and modernize their applications and you'll focus on deployment pipelines and cloud-ready application architectures. You'll coach the team and facilitate the design and technical delivery of our solutions. As you do so, you'll create enthusiasm for building great software using principles of open source and agile culture. As a Container Application and Development Architect, you should ideally be directly involved and have passion for coaching teams, design, communication, and delivering complex solutions. This is a remote position with future weekly travel to customer sites and can be located anywhere in the U.S. within close proximity to an airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business
What you will do

• Lead the discovery, architecture, design, and onboarding of applications using modern application migration, modernization, and development practices with emerging open source technologies
• Help us cover domains including microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures, DevOps engineering and application delivery, and container-based continuous delivery (CD), i.e., using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, cloud automation, and Everything as Code
• Serve as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to solve tough problems in an innovative way
• Present vision, strategy, technology, and roadmaps to executives, technical management, engineers, and operators
• Be passionate about promoting a positive developer experience through the use of Red Hat OpenShift and about building a common understanding between the Operations and Development teams
• Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments
• Actively contribute to and guide creation of reference architectures, design considerations, and best practices
• Assist in the development of standard reusable consulting delivery guides and services offerings, including definition of tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates

What you will bring

• 6+ years of experience working as a software architect, consulting architect, software developer, or in similar roles
• Proven experience architecting, designing, and developing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain
• Experience facilitating software design, architecture, and ideation sessions
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, or other container tools
• Ability to uncover business challenges and develop custom solutions to solve these challenges
• Working knowledge of object-oriented design, API design, and design patterns applicable to modern software development
• Applied knowledge of working with agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
• Proven record of software development using modern languages, systems, and frameworks like Java, Spring, Quarkus, Python, JMS, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, Redis, Infinispan, Maven, Gradle, or Node.js
• Working knowledge of database design
• Applied knowledge of modern software delivery methods and tools like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), continuous integration (CI) and CD, and Jenkins or Tekton
• Working knowledge of automation tools like Red Hat Ansible Automation, Puppet, or Chef
• Working knowledge of application and infrastructure monitoring
• Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new knowledge into practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related technical discipline

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.