Associate Solutions Architect
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Company description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

Help us make open source technology both practical and workable for our large enterprise customers. The Red Hat Sales team is looking for an Associate Solutions Architect to join us in Chicago, IL. In this role, you will be the catalyst who creates possibilities, solves problems, and establishes strategic relationships. You'll also help our customers invest wisely in an infrastructure that will give them maximum flexibility in the future, helping them run faster and more efficiently. You'll need to have a balance of serious technical expertise, passion for open source, and of deep understanding of business processes and IT problems faced at the enterprise level.

Primary job responsibilities

* Collaborate with local sales and technical delivery teams to bring our customers the best solutions from the Red Hat cloud infrastructure and application development portfolios
* Discover and analyze customer business and technical problems; apply appropriate Red Hat's solutions to address their needs
* Provide presales technical support for the development and implementation of complex services and solutions
* Provide technical expertise to sales associates and customers through sales presentations and demonstrations of our offerings; prepare detailed specifications for our offerings
* Follow standard practices and procedures for analyzing situations or data

Required skills

* Excellent communication and presentation skills
* Ability to interpret customer business problems and technical issues and effectively explain how a solution will align with their needs or requirements
* Knowledge of software development processes and programming languages
* Willingness to travel up to 50%

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