Red Hat Software
Richmond, VA 23219
Remote
2022-01-11
Junior Solutions Architect
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About the job:
About Red Hat:
Benefits
The Red Hat Public Sector team is looking for a Junior Solution Architect to join us in Maryland, Washington, DC, or northern Virginia. In this presales role, you’ll help us deliver our enterprise class open source solutions and meet the needs of our strategic customers. You will be one of our technical customer-facing advocates who create possibilities, solve problems, and establish strategic relationships. You'll be helping our customers use their existing IT infrastructures while building additional capabilities allowing for today’s digital transformation needs. Having a balance of technical skills, a desire to learn, and a willingness to get out of your comfort zone is a must. At Red Hat our passion for people, culture, and the customer experience are what makes us excellent. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do:
- Collaborate with sales and technical delivery teams to bring our customers the best solutions from the Red Hat portfolio including platform, cloud, management, automation, and application development
- Discover and analyze customers' business and technical problems; apply appropriate Red Hat solutions to address their needs
- Provide presales technical support for the development and implementation of complex services and solutions
- Provide trusted thought leadership both internally and with our customers
- Use product and industry knowledge to provide technical advice to sales associates and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations
- Follow standard practices and procedures for analyzing situations or data
- U.S. citizenship
- Experience in sales engineering, consulting, IT architecture, or equivalent certifications or degree
- Solid written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Familiarity with modern development practices like DevOps or continuous integration (CI)
- Excellent work ethic; ability to work in a field environment with frequently shifting priorities
- Located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area; candidates outside of the DC, MD, or VA area will not be considered
- Willingness to travel up to 50% , sometimes on short notice following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines
The following will be considered a plus:
- Ability and willingness to submit for, obtain, and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
- Certified in Red Hat technology, like Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or similar
- Certified in other technologies like Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, etc.
- Experience with automation to include scripting with Ansible, Python, PowerShell, etc.
- Practical experience with containers, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
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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.