4 Application Containers Jobs

Were looking for a Senior Solutions (Presales) Architect for the Application Services team. This is a specialty domain role that applies expert knowledge of solutioning principles and technology to select sales opportunities. The candidate will be regarded as an expert inside of Rackspace in an Application Services solutioning team. Works in close collaboration with the sales, solutions and delivery team to design specific and innovative Application Services components related to the customers, application development, modernisation and other transformative initiatives. This will often be part of a wider end-to-end solution including platform design, managed services, security, data/AI. Additionally, the role leads internal efforts to build credibility within specific technologies as they apply to Cloud Native Development Services. The role is UK based, however will work with global Rackspace team focusing on delivering solutions to new and existing customers within the EMEA region. Responsibilities: Develop deep professional relationships with clients and act as a trusted business and technical advisor for client executives. Well versed in related topics with the ability to navigate complex negotiations. Exercise strong judgement in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Determine methods and procedures on new assignments with minimal to no instruction. You will influence beyond your personal role and lead pre-sales projects with impact across multiple Rackspace teams including but not limited to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Product Management and Solutions and Sales. Lead customer workshops to educate on specific technologies and concepts. Work on complex problems of diverse scope, evaluate customer needs and provide direction on technical and transformational concepts that solve for current and future challenges. Writes formal project proposals, responds to RFIs, RFPs and bids, and statements of work that capture the customers requirements, propose innovative solutions that meet their business and technical objectives and estimate the effort required to execute projects aimed at specific goals and target outcomes. Supplemental resource on highly specialised customer engagements that require advanced guidance on specific technologies or concepts related to application development related project-based outcomes. Recognise buying signs, compelling events, and decision makers. Foresees potential technical and business customer objections early in the sales cycle. Overcomes concerns and lowers customer risk to selecting Rackspace. Act as a trusted advisor, with deep understanding of the customer's business, uncovering both overt and latent pains specific to your domaine expertise. Determine the level of effort for project tasks within applicable methodologies, i.e. Agile or Waterfall project management. Become recognised within Rackspace for your extensive technical knowledge within a specific domain (Application Modernisation, DevOps). Build and maintains deep and focused knowledge on products and services within their specialty domain including expertise that extends beyond the Rackspace portfolio. Responsible for associated activities such as capturing notes and activities in Salesforce and assisting in managing deal pipeline. Elevate the rest of the solutions team in their area of expertise, providing guidance, expertise, and mentoring to junior/peer-level colleagues. Qualifications: Full understanding of the tools of the solutioning trade (Salesforce, Proposal Tools, Project Scoping and Technology Tools). Ability to prioritise deals, training, and initiatives through highly effective time management. Experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Strong understanding of modernising legacy applications into modern applications via methodologies such as rehosting, re-platforming, serverless or container adoption. Solid understanding of the processes, procedures and systems used to accomplish the work and in-depth familiarity with the broader underlying concepts in own job family/job discipline. Strong understanding of developing cloud native modern applications and software development practices, with exposure to any language (Java, C#, Node.js, Scala, Python or GO preferred) Maintains an in-depth knowledge of one or more Cloud Hyperscaler (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP) Knowledge of building containerised applications and systems on modern container orchestration platforms. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with respect to serverless and container application preferred. Track record of success working through technical challenges requiring specialty knowledge within enterprise organisations. Track record of success dealing with ambiguity (internal and external) and working collaboratively with other departments and organisations to solve challenging problems. Advanced knowledge and thought leadership on technology and industry trends that affect development decisions for enterprise organisations. Demonstrates knowledge of complex designs of engineering assemblies and sub-assemblies, process, layouts, and schematics; familiar with development of product test methods. Excellent attention to detail, communication skills (written and verbal), interpersonal skills, problem solving, analytical, presentation, and whiteboarding skills. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business required or close to 10+ years of working experience in a similar capacity in a technical presales or delivery capacity. At least ONE industry certification in AWS, Azure or GCP.

Were looking for an experienced Pre-Sales Solutions Architect who is fluent in English and Arabic. The candidate should have specialisation in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) architecture and have a technical hands-on experience background. To ensure alignment with our multi-cloud business, the candidate should also have some experience in designing solutions on both AWS and Azure. It is also desirable for the candidate to have Data and AI experience as it is a focus area. The candidate will work in close collaboration with the sales, solution service lines, product and delivery teams to design specific and innovative Cloud Platform, Managed Services and Professional Services components relating to our customers requirements. The candidate will provide leadership and ownership of the wider end-to-end solution including platform design, managed services, security and data/AI. The role is Egypt based and will focus on supporting our MEA region; however, the role will also provide support for our EMEA region. The candidate will provide end to end solutions to new and existing customers. Responsibilities: Develop deep professional relationships with clients and act as a trusted business and technical advisor for sales executives. Well versed in related topics with the ability to navigate complex negotiations. Provides guidance, expertise, and training to new team members. Exercises independent judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Should be very comfortable and motivated working on their own to complete required activities. Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with little instruction. Influence is beyond their personal role and leads pre-sales projects with impact across multiple Rackspace teams including but not limited to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Product Management and the Solutions and Sales teams. Leads customer workshops to educate on specific technologies and concepts. Evaluates customer needs and provides customer with direction on technical and transformational concepts that solve for current and future challenges. Full understanding of the tools of the solutioning trade (Salesforce, Proposal Tools, Project Scoping and Technology Tools). Writes formal project proposals, responds to RFIs, RFPs and bids, and statements of work that capture the customers requirements. Propose innovative solutions that meet our customers business and technical objectives and estimate the effort required (cost models) to execute projects aimed at specific goals and target outcomes. Determines level of effort for professional services project tasks within applicable methodologies, i.e. Agile or Waterfall project management. Recognises buying signs, compelling events, and decision makers. Foresees potential technical and business customer objections early in the sales cycle. As a Trusted Advisor, with deep understanding of the customer's business, uncovers both overt and latent pains specific to their specialty domain expertise. Decisions impact the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own function/client group. May impact other related teams through quality of output and service provided. Demonstrates strong judgment and creativity in selecting methods and techniques for building solutions. Works on complex problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Qualifications: Experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Recognised within Rackspace for their proven extensive technical knowledge within a specific domain (GCP). Maintains broad knowledge of other Cloud Hyperscalers (i.e. AWS, Azure) Understanding of modernising legacy applications into modern applications via methodologies such as rehosting, re-platforming, serverless or container adoption. Good understanding of Data and AI solutions. Builds and maintains strong knowledge of the entire Rackspace portfolio. Builds and maintains deep and focused knowledge on products and services within their specialty domain including expertise that extends beyond the Rackspace portfolio. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with respect to serverless and container application preferred. Excellent attention to detail, communication skills (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. Ability to prioritise deals, training, and initiatives through highly effective time management. Excellent problem solving, analytical, presentation, and whiteboarding skills. Track record of success working through technical pre-sales challenges requiring specialty knowledge within enterprise organisations. Track record of success dealing with ambiguity (internal and external) and working collaboratively with other departments and organisations to solve challenging problems. Advanced knowledge and thought leadership on technology and industry trends that affect development decisions for enterprise organisations. Demonstrates knowledge of complex designs of engineering assemblies and sub-assemblies, process, layouts, and schematics, familiar with development of product test methods. Bachelors degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business required or close to 10+ years of working experience in a similar capacity in a technical presales capacity. At least one industry certifications required: GCP preferred, Azure, AWS, etc.

Your Impact: The role Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for providing support and review for all activities related to hosted Applications on Cloud. This individual must understand thoroughly of current design with hands-on technical experience. This role will also help support development of innovative solutions in cloud and infrastructure technologies. You are great at: Collaborate with teams from Product Development, Professional Services and Customer Support teams to Deploy Services / Applications. Be an expert on Datacenter migration of Applications/Services, and Disaster Recovery Planning & execution. Work on Post Implementation Review process for bugs, fixes, and issues encountered in active production instances. Actively support production incidents, problems, and on root cause analysis. Provide feedback with Engineering and Professional Services teams to make services stable and resilient. Develop/enhance OpenText Automated Deployment strategy Knowledge on integration points of hosted Applications and related implementation expert for CloudOps Work with 3rd party vendors and their support organizations for any impact to OT hosted solutions Ability to prioritize work to ensure timely project deliveries. Available to work on weekends to scheduled maintenance activities and Deployments. On rotation monthly 24x7 on call support What it takes: Bachelors degree in computer sciences or related Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in Cloud Applications and Platforms. Expertise in Devops, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, exp in Java env, Automation Ansible/Chef/Puppet. etc., On-call support Install, upgrade and managing platform clouds such as Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Platform architecture and design Able to automate tasks with Python, Go or Shell-script. Devops skills like Terraform, concourse, Gitlab Maintaining the platform with High availability Terraform an IAAC to create Kubernetes clusters in GKE BOSH to deploy cloud foundry platform on Infrastructure Expertise in analyzing Application containers performance, reviewing JVM Settings & thread dumps. Familiar with Container based Application Deployments and DevOps tools. Experience in Dockers and Kubernetes based deployments. Work experience on public cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS. Review product design documents to ensure compliance with architecture standards Proficiency in writing scripts (bash, ksh, perl, Powershell , Expect, AWK, Python is a plus)

Your Impact: The role Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for providing support and review for all activities related to hosted Applications on Cloud. This individual must understand thoroughly of current design with hands-on technical experience. This role will also help support development of innovative solutions in cloud and infrastructure technologies. You are great at: Collaborate with teams from Product Development, Professional Services and Customer Support teams to Deploy Services / Applications. Be an expert on Datacenter migration of Applications/Services, and Disaster Recovery Planning & execution. Work on Post Implementation Review process for bugs, fixes, and issues encountered in active production instances. Actively support production incidents, problems, and on root cause analysis. Provide feedback with Engineering and Professional Services teams to make services stable and resilient. Develop/enhance OpenText Automated Deployment strategy Knowledge on integration points of hosted Applications and related implementation expert for CloudOps Work with 3rd party vendors and their support organizations for any impact to OT hosted solutions Ability to prioritize work to ensure timely project deliveries. Available to work on weekends to scheduled maintenance activities and Deployments. On rotation monthly 24x7 on call support What it takes: Bachelors degree in computer sciences or related Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in Cloud Applications and Platforms. Expertise in Devops, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, exp in Java env, Automation Ansible/Chef/Puppet. etc., On-call support Install, upgrade and managing platform clouds such as Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Platform architecture and design Able to automate tasks with Python, Go or Shell-script. Devops skills like Terraform, concourse, Gitlab Maintaining the platform with High availability Terraform an IAAC to create Kubernetes clusters in GKE BOSH to deploy cloud foundry platform on Infrastructure Expertise in analyzing Application containers performance, reviewing JVM Settings & thread dumps. Familiar with Container based Application Deployments and DevOps tools. Experience in Dockers and Kubernetes based deployments. Work experience on public cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS. Review product design documents to ensure compliance with architecture standards Proficiency in writing scripts (bash, ksh, perl, Powershell , Expect, AWK, Python is a plus)