Automation Architect - Ansible (Saudi nationals)📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Red Hat Consulting is seeking a highly skilled Automation Architect with extensive experience in Ansible and the Ansible Application Platform. This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is specifically open to Saudi nationals only. As a subject-matter expert in Red Hat's automation technology, you will guide customers through the adoption of Red Hat solutions, ensuring best practices for automation, reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of clients' infrastructures and business challenges, providing tailored recommendations that align with their specific environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, analysis, and design workshops to influence customer architecture design decisions in alignment with Red Hat solutions, thereby earning customer confidence.
• Guide consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, including workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management.
• Collaborate closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales teams to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat's products.
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat's services capabilities, promote consistent customer engagements, and mitigate delivery risks.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Prior experience working in consulting and architecture roles.
• Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with customers, including presenting and leading customer interactions.
• Experience implementing automation technologies in an enterprise setting, including enterprise-wide deployments.
• Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms, introducing concepts such as DevOps, continuous delivery (CD), and application lifecycle management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Willingness to travel across the region up to 100%.

Required Skills

• Expertise in Ansible and the Ansible Application Platform.
• Deep understanding of automation technologies at both hands-on delivery and architecture levels, specifically Red Hat's automation technology.
• Proficiency in conducting discovery, analysis, and design workshops.
• Ability to shape and influence customer architecture design decisions.
• Experience with Red Hat's infrastructure solutions, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Knowledge of cloud or container platforms.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices.
• Understanding of continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.

Work Environment and Additional Information

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires a willingness to travel across the region up to 100%. Red Hat certifications are considered a plus.