Consulting AI Architect – OpenShift (Saudi National)

About the role

Red Hat’s Consulting team in Riyadh is seeking a Saudi‑national Consulting AI Architect with deep OpenShift expertise. You will act as a subject‑matter expert on Red Hat’s cloud and infrastructure technologies, guiding customers through design, implementation and lifecycle management of high‑availability solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver discovery, analysis and design workshops that influence customer architecture decisions and align with Red Hat solutions.
• Lead consulting teams through pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with product units, engineering, support and sales to ensure a world‑class customer experience.
• Develop and promote repeatable methodologies and tools to scale Red Hat services and reduce delivery risk.

Required profile

• Previous experience in consulting and architecture roles.
• Strong customer‑facing abilities, including presenting and leading interactions.
• Hands‑on expertise with infrastructure technologies and enterprise‑wide virtualization and container deployments.
• Knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience onboarding applications and teams onto cloud or container platforms, introducing DevOps, continuous delivery and application lifecycle management.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills.
• Willingness to travel across the region up to 100%.

Required skills

• Red Hat OpenShift
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Virtualization technologies
• Container technologies
• Cloud platforms
• DevOps practices
• Continuous delivery (CD)
• Application lifecycle management
• NVIDIA GPU
• Networking
• LLM tuning / AI model onboarding (plus)