Telco Cloud Consultant

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Telco Cloud Consultant to join us in Italy. In this role, you will guide the adoption of Red Hat’s solutions in our key telco service provider customers, network equipment providers (NEPs), and key system integrator (SI) partners. You will focus on delivering quality work resulting in a positive customer experience, while building broad and deep technical expertise in Red Hat cloud technologies. As a Telco Cloud Consultant, you’ll need to have a thorough working knowledge of and direct experience with cloud infrastructures to support applications providing containerised and virtual network functions (CNFs and VNF) to the telco industry, you’ll gain an understanding of our customers’ infrastructure with a particular focus on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform and other Red Hat cloud technologies and make recommendations appropriate to their environment.

What you will do:

• Serve as the subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs
• Constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customers’ needs
• Produce quality results and provide support to more than one project in multiple industries and various types of projects Keep stakeholders updated on actual or potential issues that may affect project or company performance
• Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, and software specification, as well as the design, testing, and deployment of open source solutions Provide written project documentation that can be distributed within Red Hat and the customer’s management team
• Adapt to changing customer requirements

• Experience in a consulting or a related role
• Experience with enterprise-wide deployments
• Advanced knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat cloud solutions like Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
• Any experience with telco industry and customers is a big plus
• Demonstrated experience communicating value, progress, and metrics of key projects to required stakeholders and diverse audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Italian and English
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, project management, and planning skills
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or willingness to pursue certification within 90 days
• Willingness to travel up to 50%

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay alignment. Annual/hourly salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for variable incentive bonus, sales commission, and/or equity.

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