Cloud Architect - OpenShift and AI

Red Hat seeks a Cloud Architect specializing in Infrastructure and AI to join our French Consulting team. This role focuses on strategic thinking that bridges technical implementation and long‑term business value, driving high‑impact projects for our most ambitious customers.

Note: This role may come into contact with confidential or sensitive customer information requiring special treatment in accordance with Red Hat policies and applicable privacy laws.

What you will do:

• Strategic Scoping and Solution Design: Lead the initial qualification and scoping of delivery projects. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that technical proposals are realistic, valuable, scalable, and perfectly aligned with the customer’s strategic goals.
• Architecture & Discovery Workshops: Deliver high‑impact discovery, analysis, and design workshops for teams of both technical and non‑technical backgrounds that shape and inspire customer use cases and architectural decisions.
• Technical Leadership & Delivery: Provide technical leadership to project teams. Support delivery projects and guide customers through successful deployments for our infrastructure solutions, specifically Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
• AI Platform Engineering: Design and implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions with a focus on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability and system resilience.
• Trusted Advisory & Advocacy: Become a respected and trusted subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing their architectural, technical, development, and strategic IT requirements. Act as a strategic advisor within Red Hat for the customer, identifying opportunities for expanded solution adoption and contributing to Project Approach Documents and SOW (Statement of Work).
• Community & Knowledge Leadership: Participate in mentoring and knowledge transfer to customers and contribute your knowledge and experience back into the wider Red Hat community for the benefit of other teams and customers. Mentor junior consultants and document best practices and “Open Practice” methodologies for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.

What you will bring:

• 5+ Years of experience in a solution architect, enterprise architect or consultant role, with a proven background in customer engagement, ideally within a consulting services organization or a services division of a software vendor.
• An understanding of the Open Source community. A genuine passion for open source technologies and collaborative development models is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and the Kubernetes ecosystem within large‑scale production environment on a delivery level.
• A strong understanding of the value of AI for our customers and the ability to position Red Hat’s AI Services portfolio as a catalyst for corporate strategy.
• Exceptional communication and “soft skills”; the ability to simplify complex concepts and navigate sensitive political environments within global organizations.
• A proactive approach to identifying potential areas for service expansion and supporting the project definition phase by focusing on the “why” and “what” of a solution to maximize customer ROI.
• A balanced blend of strategic vision and tactical execution, with the capacity for creative problem‑solving in rapidly evolving technology domains.
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification and /or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification and experience with Open Practices is a plus.
• Professional fluency in both French and English is mandatory.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites across France and within the EMEA region.

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