
Red Hat Middle East
Cloud Architect - OpenShift
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 14/05/2026
Job overview
Date posted
30/03/2026
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Experienced
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
14/05/2026
Job description
The Cloud Architect - OpenShift at Red Hat Consulting in Riyadh is responsible for providing expert guidance and hands-on delivery of Red Hat infrastructure and cloud solutions. The role entails advising customers on best practices related to automation, reliability, scalability, maintainability, high availability, and failover setups, while leading on-site delivery and implementation of OpenShift and associated technologies. The architect gains deep understanding of customer infrastructures and business challenges, translating these into architecture recommendations and enterprise deployments. They work closely with consulting teams, product engineering, support, and sales to ensure a world-class experience for clients. The role also contributes to the creation of repeatable methodologies, tools, and frameworks to scale Red Hat services, reduce delivery risk, and standardize customer engagements across the region. The position requires strong customer-facing capabilities, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage workloads and lifecycle management for applications on cloud and container platforms.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead discovery, analysis, and design workshops with customers to shape architecture decisions aligned with Red Hat solutions
- Win customer confidence by successfully delivering pilot deployments, production rollouts, and workload onboarding on OpenShift and associated platforms
- Provide hands-on architecture and implementation expertise for Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and RHEL deployments
- Work closely with consulting teams, product engineering, sales, and support to ensure consistent and high-quality customer experiences
- Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and delivery tools to scale Red Hat consulting services and lower delivery risk
- Guide application teams in onboarding to cloud and container platforms while introducing DevOps and continuous delivery practices
- Provide recommendations and design solutions for high availability, failover, scalability, maintainability, and automation within enterprise infrastructures
- Travel across the region as required to deliver consulting engagements and support customer success
Experience & skills
- Prior experience in consulting and enterprise architecture roles
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with infrastructure technologies, virtualization, and container deployments
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and RHEL, with OpenShift Virtualization considered a plus
- Proven ability to manage enterprise-scale deployments and application onboarding to cloud or container platforms
- Excellent customer-facing and presentation skills, including leading workshops and interactions with executive stakeholders
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous delivery (CD), and application lifecycle management
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 100% across the region
- Red Hat certifications considered an advantage