Architect - Ansible Automation

About the Job

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an Ansible Automation Architect to join us remotely in the U.S. The primary responsibility of the Automation Architect is to passionately drive the adoption of Red Hat's Ansible Automation solution in our key enterprise accounts, government agencies, and service provider partners. Through in-person and remote interactions, the Automation Architect will win the trust and confidence of customer engineering, development, and operations teams by aligning their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of the solution.

The Automation Architect will also play a critical role in bringing together cross-functional teams from Red Hats product business units, product engineering, support, sales, and professional services to meet the needs of our most demanding customers. The Automation Architect will act as a customer advocate with these organizations to architect the right solutions and to ensure that those solutions are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way.

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-based job that requires frequent travel to work alongside customers. Applicants can be located anywhere in the U.S. within close proximity to a primary airport.

What You Will Do

Deliver successful discovery, analysis and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence the customers use cases and architecture design decisions

Scope delivery projects and guiding customers through successful pilot and production deployments

Design, create, and deliver content that enables the broader Red Hat organization to sell, service, and support our cloud solutions at scale

Work closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hats products

Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hats services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk

Demonstrate thought leadership in Devops community by producing world-class white papers, webinars; code contributions to relevant projects; and speaking at industry leading conferences

Frequently travel to customer locations to work alongside leading financial services, retail, telecommunications, and institutional customers

After joining Red Hat, you will go through an intensive training program on advanced automation concepts, and Ansible Automation Platform components as it relates to automating IT technologies, Dev Ops, Git Ops and how to seed deeper automation adoption with our customers. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

At 2 months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following:

Fundamental understanding of scalable, secure, and maintainable automation solution design principles, including common integration patterns, error handling strategies, and basic infrastructure considerations

Deep working knowledge and practical experience with Ansible Automation Platform, including supported architectures, core components, and common integrations

Practical experience with Red Hat's solutions and offerings

Within 6 months, be ready to implement a routine container platform project by attaining the following:

Ability to effectively map "as-is" business processes, identify pain points, and accurately document them, along with identifying automation opportunities, and potential "to-be" automated processes

Understanding of core consulting methodologies, including project lifecycle, client communication best practices, active listening , and contributing effectively in client workshops and meetings

Understanding of how Red Hats technologies can drive innovation and foster transformation at large organizations

Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership in container platforms by accomplishing the following:

Demonstrated ability to break down complex