The Red Hat Public Sector Services team is looking for an enterprise-level engineer with a background in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (Virt) to join us as a Dedicated Operations Technical Account Manager (DO-TAM) in the United States. In this role, you will partner closely with a public sector customer to provide architectural guidance and implementation advice for the OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualization suite of solutions. This is not a sales role. Youll be a dedicated customer engagement associate and a member of the Red Hat engineering and technical support teams. As a DO-TAM, you will provide a level of premium support that builds, maintains, and grows long-lasting customer loyalty by tailoring support for our customers environments, facilitating collaboration with their other vendors, and advocating on their behalf.What You Will Do<ul><li>Serve as the trusted technical advisor and primary escalation point for the customer’s OpenShift Virtualization deployment, operations, and roadmap.</li><li>Develop deep relationships with IT and business stakeholders to understand their priorities, constraints, and architecture goals.</li><li>Provide architectural guidance and design reviews for virtualized workloads running on OpenShift, including capacity planning, networking, storage, VM lifecycle, and hybrid cloud integrations.</li><li>Assist in planning and executing migrations from legacy hypervisors into OpenShift Virtualization.</li><li>Partner with the customer in rolling out upgrades, patches, and lifecycle management for the virtualization stack.</li><li>Monitor and audit the customer environment to identify risks, performance bottlenecks, and configuration drift; propose improvements or mitigations.</li><li>Triage, diagnose, and resolve escalated technical issues; coordinate with Red Hat Support, Engineering, and product development teams.</li><li>Create, update, and maintain customer engagement plans, runbooks, operational guides, and architecture documentation.</li><li>Deliver periodic executive- and operational-level reviews of performance, health, and risk to customer leadership.</li><li>Lead and deliver training sessions, workshops, and knowledge transfer on OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization operations.</li><li>Provide hands-on support, debugging, and proof-of-concept work as needed — including interacting directly with virtual machines and OpenShift clusters.</li><li>Be available for after-hours incident response, on-call rotation, and emergency support.</li><li>Travel as required to customer sites and regional offices.  </li></ul>What You Will Bring<ul><li>Prior experience in technical support, engineering, operations, or quality assurance roles.</li><li>Strong understanding of Linux, and supporting areas such as networking, storage, and security.</li><li>Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM, Hyper-V) and specifically with OpenShift Virtualization.</li><li>Deep familiarity with OpenShift architectures, APIs, operators, and cluster operations.</li><li>Ability to juggle multiple issues, priorities, and projects with excellent attention to detail.</li><li>Strong customer-facing skills: ability to grow relationships, foster trust, and communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.</li><li>Commitment to pursue relevant Red Hat certifications (e.g., RHCE, OpenShift Administration, OpenShift Virtualization).</li><li>Collaborative mindset, able to work across internal (Red Hat) and external (customer, integrators, partners) teams.</li><li>Quick learner, self-starter, and ability to adapt to evolving technologies and environments.</li><li>Strong time management and prioritization capabilities.</li><li>Ability to articulate how Red Hat’s virtualization and hybrid cloud product portfolio maps to the customer’s strategic use cases.</li><li>U.S. Citizenship required.  </li></ul>The Following Will Be Considered a Plus<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, etc.).</li><li>Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.</li><li>Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) and/or OpenShift Virtualization certification.</li><li>Previous practical experience with Red Hat technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, etc.</li><li>Experience migrating VMs from VMware, KVM, or other hypervisors into OpenShift Virtualization using migration toolkits.</li><li>Experience managing hybrid VM/container workloads, live VM migration, and VM networking and storage in OpenShift environments.</li><li>Experience running workloads across hybrid cloud providers (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud).</li></ul>The salary range for this position is $104,020.00 - $166,310.00. 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