Senior Virtualization Specialist Solutions Architect – Cross Segment

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $189.3k - $302.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Red Hat

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1993

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Corporate Round on 1999-03

Enterprise • Cloud

Red Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, helping companies worldwide to build and deploy applications across hybrid cloud infrastructures. With a strong focus on developing secure, stable, and innovative technologies, Red Hat offers a broad portfolio including products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. These products support IT services on any infrastructure efficiently. Trusted by more than 90% of the U. S. Fortune 500, Red Hat empowers organizations to modernize their IT environments, leveraging open source communities to drive technological advancement.

📋 Description

• Work with the customer Account Executive, Sales Specialist, and Solution Architect to identify challenges and blockers to adoption of OpenShift or OpenStack as an infrastructure platform, as well as consumption within new and existing customer accounts. • Interface with regional sales engineering for account planning and GTM as needed. • Plan, design and execute tailored solutions which will effectively address the above, leveraging additional support and resources from Red Hat as required. • Identify and partner with customer champions, acting as an advocate within both their line-of-business and application development teams, as well as within Red Hat. • Work closely with the product team, providing feedback on both the services and underlying platforms they are running on. • Assist leadership with evolving our Go-To-Market strategy for OpenShift on bare metal adoption, including OpenShift Virtualization and OpenStack. • Based on your first-hand customer experience, work in close coordination with the business development and technical pre-sales teams responsible for our strategic cloud provider and ISV partnerships to identify potential for repeatable and scalable go-to-market offerings. • Facilitate pre and post-sales activities including technical deep dives, proofs of concept, “bake-offs,” internal “DevOpsDays” events, virtualization roadshows, application portfolio reviews, etc. • Execute community outreach and customer advocacy activities.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced OpenShift CNI Architecture: Deep expertise in architecting and configuring enterprise container network interfaces, specifically OVN-Kubernetes and integrating Multus CNI to support multi-homed pod and VM environments. • OpenShift Virtualization Networking: Proven experience designing and implementing advanced networking for virtualized workloads inside OpenShift, including configuring Network Attachment Definitions (NADs) and handling Layer 2/Layer 3 traffic segregation. • Declarative Node Networking: Strong experience utilizing the NMstate operator to manage host-level network states, including configuring Linux bridges, VLAN tagging, network bonding (LACP), and MTU optimization across bare-metal OpenShift nodes. • Ingress & Traffic Management: Advanced proficiency in configuring and scaling OpenShift Ingress Controllers and bare-metal ingress providers like MetalLB or hardware load balancers (F5, Citrix). • Hybrid Cloud & Physical Network Integration: Expert-level understanding of connecting OpenShift environments to traditional data center networks (BGP routing, spine-leaf fabrics) and cloud-native network architectures. • 4+ years of experience with: containers and container management tools; VMware vSphere, Xen, KVM, Docker, virtualization infrastructure; enterprise automation technologies; containers and micro-services, cloud computing; and developing technical presentations and delivering them to a live audience. • Deep datacenter experience with integration, storage, and compute expertise. • Knowledge of authentication systems and how to integrate them into infrastructure platforms for RBAC in the enterprise. • High availability and disaster recovery expertise, with a proven track record of design and implementation. • Kubernetes knowledge and experience at scale. • Understanding of generalized application architectures and how they fit into virtualization or containerization on bare metal infrastructure. • Experience delivering technical presentations and leading business value sessions. • Executive presence with public speaking skills.

🏖️ 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!