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Solution Architect - Specialty Domain - OpenStack

Rackspace

remote,Vietnam - Remote
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Description

The OpenStack Solutions Architect is the front-line expert at working with Rackspace’s customers, sales teams, solutions engineers, and product development/management groups.  The candidate that will fit best into a OpenStack Solutions Architect role will have extensive experience in architecture and design and development of business applications utilizing Kubernetes and/or OpenStack infrastructure.  

The OpenStack Solutions Architect is the front-line expert at working with Rackspace’s customers, sales teams, solutions engineers, and product development/management groups.  The candidate that will fit best into a OpenStack Solutions Architect role will have extensive experience in architecture and design and development of business applications utilizing Kubernetes and/or OpenStack infrastructure.  

  • Innately service-oriented and always communicates with respect and professionalism
  • Comfortable in the dynamic atmosphere of a technical organization with a rapidly expanding customer base
  • Ability to prioritize deals, training, and initiatives through highly effective time management
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical, presentation, and whiteboarding skills
  • Motivated self-starter who takes ownership of customer needs and works to find a positive outcome that yields high customer service levels
  • A trusted advisor to the customer that will conduct deep-dive sessions to help customers overcome adoption concerns
  • The ability to interact in an engaging way with individuals and groups while conveying the value of Rackspace services with clarity of the benefits to the customer.   

    • ·         Requires 5+ years of solution architecture experience or specialty domain experience with a proven track record
    ·         Strong knowledge of the core OpenStack or Kubernetes projects
    ·         Experience with sizing and optimizing the hardware required to run the various OpenStack services of Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Ceph, Heat, and other core services and/or experience with Kubernetes architecture and configuration best practices and guidelines
    ·         Familiarity with or a desire to learn components such as Helm, ISTIO, Prometheus, and other Kubernetes services.
    ·         Strong understanding of the DevOps concepts for CI/CD, configuration management, orchestration, etc.
    ·         Familiarity with programming and architectural frameworks; experience with Python and/or OpenShift is ideal
    ·         Any of the following industry certifications are a plus: Linux+, RHCSA, RHCE, MCSE, MCSA, MCITP, CCNA, CKA, CKAD, OpenStack
    ·         Ability to travel approximately 25-50%