Infrastructure Telco Architect

Job Summary

The Red Hat Telco Services Consulting Services team is seeking a Senior Architect to join us in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In this role, you will earn the trust and confidence of customers’ engineering, development, and operations teams through in-person and remote interactions by aligning their requirements and use cases to the functional capabilities of our solutions.

You'll play a critical role in bringing together cross-functional teams from Red Hat's product, Product Engineering, Support, Professional Services, and Sales teams to meet the needs of our most demanding customers.

As an Architect, you will serve as a customer advocate with these organizations to deliver the right solutions and ensure they are implemented and supported innovatively and reliably.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals.

• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including quality assurance (QA) and ticket and bug management.

• Mentor and share knowledge with customers.

• Work directly with senior associates and telecommunication clients, understanding their industry-specific needs, to guide the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time-to-market.

• Analyze client business requirements and translate them into specific technology, system, and application designs to ensure the architecture aligns with the client's long-term business goals.

• Lead the architecture design activities and sessions, ensuring that various systems and technologies are integrated to meet the end customer's requirements.

• Design and advocate for solutions using cloud technologies, robust design principles, multiple integration points, and automation and orchestration methods.

What you will bring:

• 5+ years in a related technology position, e.g., sales, consulting, operations, development, etc

• 4+ years of experience with Public Cloud and Linux technologies.

• 4+ years of experience with telecommunications technologies and networking infrastructure.

• 2+ years of experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

• 2+ years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, ACM, ACS, Quay, Ceph, or Kubernetes.

• Thorough knowledge of network functions virtualization (NFV), network acceleration such as DPDK and SRIOV, zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), cloud software-defined networking (SDN) or storage disciplines, and DevOps models and technologies.

• Experience with storage systems like FiberChannel (and/or FCOE), iSCSI, NFS, or other Software Defined Storage technologies.

• Extensive experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and design.

• Virtualization platforms utilizing KVM, QEMU, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, and VMware.

• Experience with AppDev automation and pipelines. Technology like Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, etc

• Experience with networking technologies, including VLANs, routing protocols, 4/5G, IPAM solutions, and Load Balancers. Technology like Infoblox TCPWave, F5, etc

• Experience in designing and delivering implementations using various public and private cloud infrastructure technologies and providers

• Interest and knowledge in AI/ML technologies and recent developments.

• Admin-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, Nutanix, or OpenStack

• VMware infrastructure, including ESX, vCenter, [S/DV]Switches/NSX, Datastores, vSAN, vVols, vRealize, SRM, Backup software

• Advanced level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX) and storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols)

• Knowledge of common Add-Ons or third-party tools, including Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, and Performance tools)

• Experience with technologies including OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure is a plus

• Experience in the Telecommunications Industry  

• English proficiency to communicate verbally and written

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