Cloud Architect - OpenShift and AI

At Red Hat, we are seeking a high-caliber Cloud Architect specializing in Infrastructure and AI to join our French Consulting team. This role is designed for a strategic thinker who bridges the gap between complex technical implementation and long-term business value. You will not only master Red Hat’s OpenShift and AI portfolios but will also serve as a trusted advisor, helping our most ambitious customers define their vision, scope high-impact projects, and navigate the journey toward AI industrialization. As a Cloud Architect at Red Hat, you will be a key leader in our Professional Services organization.You will move beyond simple execution to shape the way our most strategic customers adopt container technologies and Artificial Intelligence. By aligning technical possibilities with business outcomes, you'll be responsible for providing technical leadership to project teams while ensuring the quality of customer deliverables across multiple engagements. You'll apply well-developed technology, consulting, business, and process expertise in the implementation of quality work while actively coaching and mentoring others. In this role, you'll need to be proficient in building deep good customer relationships as you will often play a key role in managing expectations at the highest levels. You will act as a customer advocate, designing the right solutions and ensuring that they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way. You will play a pivotal role in the "Discovery" phase of engagements, translating high-level business requirements into actionable architecture designs. This is an unique opportunity to build on your core base of knowledge and work in a fast-paced environment promoting Red Hat’s cutting-edge solutions. 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. About Red Hat Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Inclusion at Red Hat Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village. Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO) Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Red Hat does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Red Hat and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee. Red Hat supports individuals with disabilities and provides reasonable accommodations to job applicants. If you need assistance completing our online job application, email [email protected] . General inquiries, such as those regarding the status of a job application, will not receive a reply.