Description:
During your first year as a Junior Solution Architect, you’ll participate in the FASTER Program, Field Accelerator for Sales and Technical Emerging Roles (we do love a good acronym), a comprehensive 12-month onboarding and development program designed to provide you with the deep technical knowledge, customer engagement skills, and industry insights needed to excel. You'll gain hands-on experience with Red Hat's diverse portfolio, learn from seasoned experts, and contribute to real-world customer solutions from day one. This cohort-based program starts in September 2026. Through this experience, you will:
- Learn all about Red Hat and how we support our customers to address their technical developmental and strategic business challenges with our portfolio and services
- Build a strong support network of your Peers, Manager, Mentor and other Red Hatters within and outside of your team
- Develop technical skills in the Red Hat portfolio that span Cloud, Automation and AI solutions by completing training programs and attaining industry-recognized certifications
- Apply your technical skills as you engage in meaningful customer interactions, experiences and job shadowing opportunities
- Shadow and assist more experienced Solution Architects as they deliver proof of value to our customers and partners through presentations, demonstrations, workshops and pilot projects
- Enhance your professional capabilities through real-world experiences working directly with customers and participating in skill development opportunities
- Gain understanding of the processes and tools associated with enterprise-level solution architecture
- Focus on your personal and professional development as you grow your career at Red Hat
- Support the Sales organization’s goals to deliver customer business value, advance opportunities by obtaining technical wins, educate customers, and increase sales pipeline and revenue
What you will bring
- Passion and curiosity for open source technology and desire to build a career within the Tech industry and expertise in emerging technologies
- Strong technical skills in computer science, IT, AI, or related fields gained through university programs, upskilling bootcamps, certificate programs, military experience, etc.
- Demonstrated experience applying technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills in an Enterprise IT-related project
- Motivation to engage in self-directed learning on new technologies
- Direct experience with any of Red Hat products; Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat AI platform, and related technologies is also preferred
- Desire to be customer-focused, understanding customer needs and helping them achieve their goals
- Willingness to travel to customer sites depending on assignments and to work both in-person from a Red Hat office location and remotely
- Effective communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with internal teams and external customers
- Some exposure to scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) or programming languages (e.g., Java, Go) is a plus