Account Solution Architect

About the job

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Solutions Architect to join us in Ottawa, Canada. In this role, you will be focused on our public sector customers.

You will be the catalyst who creates possibilities, solves problems, and establishes working relationships with our customers.

You'll discover and analyze our customer business and technical needs and collaborate with the Sales and technical delivery teams to help customers invest wisely in the right solutions from across Red Hat’s portfolio, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation.

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll need to have excellent communication and people skills, as you'll be a key part of the first major experience our customers have with Red Hat.

You’ll also need to have a balance of technical expertise, passion for open source, and of detailed understanding of business processes.

What you will do

Support the Sales team with recommendations for the development and implementation of complex offerings and solutions to achieve sales quotas

Collaborate with the account team in working toward the shared sales quota goals (product and services ) while maintaining good relationships with existing and prospective customers

Prepare detailed specifications of our offerings and implement customer installation plans

Design solutions based on customer requirements and create and deliver solid business cases

Design value-driven architectures and present the application and ROI of our technologies

Deliver compelling recommendations and quality solutions that result in the closing of new sales

Use your skills as a technical solutions expert and your understanding of industry best practices to deliver timely results to customers that satisfy their expectations

Share knowledge and findings to allow team members to learn from your successes and mistakes

What you will bring

10+ years of experience as a sales engineer, consultant, IT architect, or an equivalent role within enterprise accounts

Ability to interpret customer business and technical needs

Understanding of complex enterprise solutions and architectures

Excellent presentation, communication, and documentation skills

Record of developing relationships at engineering, commercial, and executive levels throughout large enterprise IT organizations

Advanced knowledge of UNIX or Linux systems, preferably in Red Hat platform offerings like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), provisioning and patch management solutions like Red Hat Satellite, and configuration management technologies like Red Hat Ansible Automation, Puppet, or Chef or other related technologies

Solid knowledge of hybrid cloud infrastructure and management solutions in the market, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform, KVM, VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure

Knowledge of technologies like clustering, directory services, identity management, SELinux, etc.

Broad understanding of the application life cycle from development to operations and its respective practices (DevOps)

Knowledge of key technologies in DevOps including Linux containers, container management and security, and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tooling

Willingness to travel

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