[SLL] Red Hat is seeking some rock start Linux folks (and java too!)

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Feb 8 09:19:11 PST 2008 

There are a number of Global Services positions open that Red Hat would
really like to fill.  Many involve travel so your home location may not
matter as much.

If any of these interest you, please contact me off list at
'jkeating at redhat.com'.  Cheers!

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Linux Solutions Architect

Job Summary

The Enterprise Solutions Architect's (SA) primary role is to partner with regional Key Account Executives to achieve sales and revenue goals, evaluate technical requirements of new sales opportunities and develop technical solutions that can successfully meet the needs of prospects.

Key Responsibilities

    * Ensure revenue quota, deployment, and service objectives are met while maintaining a high level of prospect/customer satisfaction.
    * A technical point of contact for prospects, customers and the sales team.
    * Develop and implement the technical sales strategies to help ensure Red Hat's objectives are met.
    * Position and present Red Hat solutions and technical proposals to prospects, customers.
    * Lead the gathering of architecture, design, and presentation of solutions to meet the prospect's needs.
    * Research and write the responses to technical sections of RFI/RFPs.
    * Drive and support pre-sales pilots, demonstrations, PoCs, evaluation and benchmarks. 

Qualifications

    * Comfortable with solution selling process in enterprise software market.
    * Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
    * Excellent written, oral communication, and be proficient in presentation and client facing skills.
    * Advanced knowledge of UNIX, Linux, and databases.
    * Basic knowledge of networking and complex software integration.
    * Ability to work in the field in remote offices, and be self-managing with excellent time management skills.
    * Self-disciplined and have the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
    * Proficient, well-rounded experience in technical consultative selling up to C level executives.
    * Knowledgeable with open source technologies.
    * College degree or equivalent.
    * 3 + years experience as a Sales Engineer or equivalent supporting Enterprise accounts. 

Desired Qualifications

    * 2+ years experience in Linux/UNIX system administration/integration/development. 

Travel

    * 50-60% travel expected 



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Linux Instructor I & II

Duties

    * Linux Instructor I will have the following duties:
          o Conducts technical training for customers in the RHCE-level
curriculum (see https://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/ for a
complete description). Instructs participants in both classroom
lectures and laboratory sessions. o Contributes to upgrade,
enhancement, and maintenance of technical training offerings. o
Participates in other infrastructure development, such as testing of
labs, development of courseware maintenance tools, maintenance of web
content, hardware maintenance. o Works day-to-day with little
instruction or supervision; ability to take new assignments with
general instructions.

    * Instructor II will (additionally) have one or more of the
following additional duties: o Conducts technical training for
customers in the RHCA-level curriculum (see
https://www.redhat.com/training/architect/courses/ for a complete
description). o Conducts technical training for customers in the
developer curriculum (see
https://www.redhat.com/training/developer/courses/ for a complete
description). o Conducts technical training for customers in the
security curriculum (see
https://www.redhat.com/training/security/courses/ for a complete
description). o Participates in the development and creation of new
courses, including:
                + Interacting with customers and internal personnel,
including Engineering and technical and sales support, to develop
specifications for course content based on customer job role
requirements.
                + Creating new course content from specifications and
from engineering documentation, software documentation, or the software
itself.
                + Working with internal personnel to ensure that course
material reflects current product features and job role usage.
                + Following up to determine applicability of course
material to job role.
                + Interacting with senior internal and external
personnel at all stages of the courseware development process. o
Participates in development and/or maintenance of the courseware
toolchain, including courseware management utilities, stylesheets, etc.

Job Requirements & Qualifications

    * Instructor I has the following qualifications:
          o Knowledge of and experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
system administration, including the ability to set up a workstation
(installation, filesystem management, software management using RPM and
yum, user administration). o Knowledge of and experience with
networking services commonly used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems,
including most of the following: BIND, DHCP, NFS, FTP, Samba, sendmail,
Postfix, Apache, Squid. o Knowledge of and experience securing systems
and data on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system using some of the
following subsystems: TCP wrappers; firewalls; encryption, including
encrypted communications and encrypted files. o Mastery of user-level
Linux including command line expertise. o Ability to instruct
customers: lecture on technical subject matter, maintaining the
attention and interest of participants; ability to answer technical
questions on the fly and follow up when the answer is unknown; the
ability to work patiently with participants during labs; ability to
evaluate needs of customers and work in an environment with competing
needs. o RHCE certification. A candidate without RHCE certification
will be expected to achieve this certification before the first day of
employment. o At least five years of related experience, including both
system administration and teaching experience. o Ability to travel 25%
to 80% based on location. Instructors located in larger cities
typically travel less; instructors in cities without a Red Hat training
center will travel 80% of the time. o A B.A. or B.S. is preferred but
not required.

    * Instructor II has (additionally) one or more the following
additional qualifications: o Ability to teach most elements of the
RHCA-level curriculum (see
https://www.redhat.com/training/architect/courses/ for details). This
includes in-depth knowledge of three or more of the following
technologies: securing network services through the use of TCP
wrappers, firewalls, and service-specific security methods;
administration of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server; ability to
install and configure virtualized systems; ability to set up clusters
using Red Hat technology; ability to set up Kerberos and the Red Hat
Directory Server for authorization and authentication; configuration of
the GFS filesystem; performance tuning under Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
o Ability to teach most elements of the developer curriculum (see
https://www.redhat.com/training/developer/courses/ for details). o
Ability to teach all elements of the security curriculum (see
https://www.redhat.com/training/security/courses/ for details). o
iDemonstrated experience in developing original courseware: specifying
courses; authoring courses; evaluting courses in the field. Knowledge
of DocBook is preferred. o Demonstrated experience using DocBook and
XSLT or writing complex applications in perl.

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Linux Consultant

The Linux Consultant leads the onsite delivery and implementation of
products and offerings from the Global Professional Services (GPS)
organization of Red Hat. A highly respected and valued member of the
Services team, the Consultant will have a diverse and deep
understanding of enterprise Open Source and Linux usage, and experience
applying those technologies appropriately. A Consultant is expected to
have superb technical and communication skills, facilitating successful
delivery of projects such as: providing reference architectures, proofs
of concept, benchmarks, training sessions, designs, automation programs
or scripts, performance enhancements, documentation, product patches,
and/or other artifacts as needed. The Consultant's ability to master
new technologies coupled with Red Hat's unparalleled training programs
keep the Consultant in the leading edge of Red Hat's evolving
technologies and allow the Consultant to advance their technical
leadership.

Requirements

    * Excellent technical skills in Unix or Linux system configuration
and administration that includes some or all of these areas:
networking, security, kernel modules, open source and proprietary
software tools for monitoring and management, file systems, SAN
storage, LDAP integration, Linux kernel and module compilations, RPM
packages creation and deployment, authoring programs using scripting
languages (e.g. bash, ksh, python, perl), high availability clusters
and cluster file systems (install, configure, tune, test, administer).
    * Demonstrated experience desired with development tools (GCC,
various IDEs, CVS, Rational Suite), source version control tools and
source code repositories, and relational databases.
    * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated
experience communicating value, progress, and metrics (status) of key
projects to required stakeholders and diverse audiences (technical and
business).
    * Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or ability to complete within
30 days of hire.
    * Ability to constantly learn about new technologies and apply
those concepts to customers needs.
    * Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team
    * Excellent oral and written communication skills 

Desired Skills

    * 2+ years experience with Linux in a system administration or
system programming role.
    * Advanced knowledge of Unix or Linux database administration and
tuning.
    * Advanced knowledge of Linux kernel internals, including
performance tuning experience.
    * Experienced implementing virtualization technologies in an
enterprise setting.
    * Knowledgeable on Open Source technologies and the Open Source
Community. 

Travel

    * 80-100% travel expected. 

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Middleware Consultant

Middleware Solutions Consultant are highly respected members of the Red
Hat team, with broad experience in the design, development, deployment,
and support of enterprise Java applications. Middleware consultants
have a deep understanding of J2EE/JEE and supporting technologies with
experience applying those technologies to solve real-world problems.
The Solutions Consultant works with the Middleware Solutions Architect
to deliver solutions to the client with the JBoss product suite. You
will be in front of customers on a daily basis (both on the phone/web
meeting and in person) and will sometimes travel to client sites.
Middleware consults can listen to customers' technical challenges and
can suggest and implement various solution paths, understanding that
"one size does not fit all."

We are looking for consultants and developers who have actual
development experience with J2EE and have a natural talent for talking
and presenting to different groups of people.

Primary Responsibilities will include:

    * Implement technical solutions to customer problems
    * Develop and conduct live demonstrations of JBoss products
    * Conduct live demonstrations of JBoss software products
    * Educate prospects on the capabilities of JBoss software products
    * Identifying the appropriate technologies to solve client problems
    * Form relationships with clients technical staff to identify new
opportunities
    * Contribute to JBoss products via documentation (wiki, quick-start
guides, whitepapers) or development (example usage code, bug fixes,
enhancements, suggestions)
    * Provide feedback to Product Management on product direction and
feature usefulness (customer applicability) 

Required Skills:

    * Standard Java Programming (J2SE/JSE APIs like JDBC, JNDI, JAXP,
JAAS, etc.)
    * Enterprise Java Programming (J2EE/JEE APIs like EJB,
Servlet/JSP/JSF, JMS, JAX-RPC/WS, JPA, JTA, JCA, etc.)
    * Development/Deployment on J2EE/JEE appservers (JBoss AS, BEA
WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, etc.)
    * Communication (Listening, speaking, "knowing your audience",
transmission of concepts with/without examples, etc.)
    * Experience implementing enterprise architectures and multi-tiered
applications
    * Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team
    * Ability to constantly learn about new technologies and apply
those concepts to customers needs 

Preferred Skills:

    * Database design
    * Consulting
    * Technical writing
    * Multilingualism (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese)
    * For US : TS-SCI security clearance 

Job Requirements: (standard - senior)

    * 2-7+ years Standard Java Development
    * 2-5+ years Enterprise Java Development (J2EE/JEE) 

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Jesse Keating RHCE      (jkeating.livejournal.com)
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