Technical Account Manager - OpenShift

The Red Hat Global Services team is looking for a Technical Account Manager to join us in EMEA. In this role, you will provide personalized, attentive support and mentorship to a small set of enterprise customers. Your goal will be to build high-value relationships as you understand their IT infrastructures, internal processes, and business needs, creating long-lasting loyalty to Red Hat.

You will ensure that our customers receive access to solutions that enable their technical environments to run efficiently. As a Technical Account Manager, you work closely with internal resources such as Support Delivery, Engineering, and Product Management depending on the customers’ environments and needs,  you will help them collaborate with other vendors and advocate on their behalf. In this position, you are building up, maintaining, and growing long-lasting loyalty between Red Hat and our customers. You have the opportunity to shape the future of our technology along with subject matter experts and developers in the Open Source Community.

Learn about the real-life experience of one of our Technical Account Managers in this blog post. 

What you will do

• Become a Red Hat Technical Ambassador, working closely with a small number of customers using Red Hat Openshift

• Develop relationships with key business and IT stakeholders and become an expert on customer implementations by understanding their top business goals and priorities

• Understand customers' technical infrastructure, hardware, processes, and products

• Deliver key portfolio updates and assist customers with product upgrades

• Inform customers of technology changes or potential disruptions to their service and advise them on mitigation strategies

• Perform initial or secondary investigations and respond to online and phone support requests

• Troubleshoot technical issues and guide issue escalation with Red Hat and customer teams

• Provide advice and guidance to customers about their current and future use of Red Hat’s offerings

• Perform technical reviews and share knowledge to proactively identify and prevent issues

• Manage customer cases and maintain clear and concise case and customer documentation; craft customer engagement plans

• Build a sense of trust with customers and serve as their advocate within Red Hat

• Engage with Red Hat Engineering teams to help develop solutions, based on customer engagements, as well as personal experience, that guide platform adoption

• Ensure high level of customer experience with each qualified engagement

• Analyze and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer leadership

• Establish and maintain parity with Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud strategy

• Delivering technical trainings and presentations to customers staff

• Travel, as necessary, to visit customers or internal events

What you will bring

• Experience with Telco Cloud computing infrastructure solutions (such as OpenShift and OpenStack) and their concepts

• Strong understanding of Linux and related technologies such as, but not limited to, networking and storage

• Prior experience in a support, development, engineering, or quality assurance organization

• Ability to handle multiple issues and projects, while maintaining a high attention to detail

• Ability to manage and grow existing enterprise customer relationships

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to explain complex information to customers clearly and concisely

• Growth mindset and willingness to learn (as part of your onboarding and further development process, you are expected to obtain specific technology certifications such as RHCE/OCP/OSP/Ansible/RHCA, etc.)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; ability to explain complex information, such as aligning Red Hat’s offerings to customer needs or use cases, to customers in straightforward terms 

• Effective collaboration skills for working with internal and external associates; ability to manage internal and external communication and prioritize tasks according to their importance or urgency

• Efficient time management, as well as the ability to prioritize tasks according to their importance/urgency

• Ability to manage multiple issues and projects with focus on detail, while not losing sight of the overall picture

• Be able to communicate effectively how Red Hat’s offerings align to customer needs and use-cases

The following are considered a plus

• A degree in a technology-related discipline, preferably computer science or engineering

• Advanced technical knowledge of OpenStack and its components

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification

• Previous hands-on experience with Red Hat technologies, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, etc.

• Experience with Telco Cloud Vendors offerings and solutions, such as Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco, Amdocs or Mavenir 

• Experience with cloud computing and cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Platform (GCP) or IBM Cloud

• Prior experience serving in a technical leadership or mentorship role

• Additional language such as French, Italian, German very welcome

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