OpenShift Infrastructure Architect

About the role

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an OpenShift Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in Kubernetes platforms and virtualization technologies. The role acts as a trusted technical leader across pre-sales and delivery, helping customers define and implement their infrastructure transformation journey. It involves engaging early in the sales cycle to understand customer needs and shaping solutions, then leading the architecture and implementation of OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in pre-sales activities such as customer discovery sessions, workshops and solution design
• Partner with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, define scope and build technical proposals
• Support RFP/RFI responses and present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders
• Assess customer infrastructure environments and propose optimized architectures
• Design and implement OpenShift-based platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization, and lead migrations from traditional virtualization platforms to OpenShift
• Provide technical leadership during delivery and advise customers and partners on infrastructure and platform roadmaps
• Work with Product Engineering, Consulting and Support teams, and promote automation, DevOps and infrastructure as code
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reusable assets and best practices

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, consulting or platform engineering roles
• Proven pre-sales or customer-facing experience supporting complex solution sales cycles
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including executive-level storytelling
• Fluent English, written and spoken
• Red Hat certifications are a plus

Required skills

• Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, KVM) and migration strategies
• Understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute, storage, networking)
• Experience with automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform) and IaC practices