Senior Automation Architect - Ansible, Germany (m/f/d)

Job Summary

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Automation Architect with infrastructure and automation experience to join our team of open source experts in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Berlin or remotely in Germany. In this role, you will work as part of a fast-growing team at the forefront of helping customers guide digital transformation and modern IT architectures as they grow in existing and new markets. You'll be responsible for providing technical leadership to small to medium-sized project teams while ensuring the quality of customer deliverables for one or more projects. You'll apply well-developed technology, consulting, business, and process expertise in the implementation of quality work while actively coaching and mentoring others. You'll need to be proficient in building good customer relationships because you will often play a key role in managing customer expectations. As a Senior Automation Architect, you will represent Red Hat in your customer engagements and at technical forums, speaking to audiences varying from customer architects, engineers, and developers to community user groups about Red Hat's technologies, solutions, and services.

What you will do

• Become a respected and trusted subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing their architectural, technical, development, and strategic IT requirements 

• Implement and integrate Red Hat's open hybrid cloud technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Satellite, while further learning and developing your skills in Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat OpenShift 

• Define overall system architectures, manage software specification, installation, and configuration, and design, test, and deploy Red Hat's open source solutions - Work with senior associates to promote the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time to market

•  Develop and implement automation and integration for our customers' cloud and system infrastructure solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Puppet, Python, or Ruby - 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 

• Participate in mentoring and knowledge transfer to customers - Contribute your knowledge and experience back into the wider Red Hat community for the benefit of other teams and customers

What you will bring

•  5+ years of experience working with enterprise customers on a range of infrastructure and deployment projects in an on-site capacity 

• 5+ years of experience working as a UNIX, Linux, or virtual infrastructure engineer or system administrator 

• Excellent knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on a delivery level

• Technical knowledge of automation tools like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform; Puppet, Chef, and Terraform are nice to have

• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification and /or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification is a plus 

• Fluency in German and English is mandatory

• Ready to travel upto 35% within Germany and on certain occasions with EMEA

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