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SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from the data center to multi-cloud and out to the edge. Only SUSE also manages many Linux and Kubernetes distributions. At SUSE, Choice Happens because we prioritize community, interoperability and relentless innovation. Discover how we power mission-critical resilience at www.suse.com.

Technical Consultant - Cloud Native

Job Description

As a Technology Consultant/Expert, you will serve as a senior technical architect and trusted advisor, leading complex customer engagements focused on designing, deploying, and optimizing solutions built on SUSE technologies. You will be responsible for delivering advanced hands-on technical configurations including automation scripting for example. This role demands a significant understanding of the appropriate segment of the SUSE Portfolio, a deep grasp of complementary technologies, and the ability to influence and guide both customers and internal teams. You will proactively drive customer success, lead scoping activities for large-scale projects, and champion customer needs within product development, showcasing excellent Stakeholder Management and Technical Architecture capabilities.

How You’ll Contribute

Act as a technical architect for SUSE technologies, providing strategic guidance and expertise to customers.
Work with customers to design and deploy solutions based on SUSE technologies, ensuring their successful implementation.
Carry out advanced hands-on configuration and coding activities as required to address customer requirements
Maintain an advanced-level understanding of the SUSE portfolio of products, staying current with new releases and features.
Possess a significant understanding of complementary technologies, such as other distributions of Linux, Kubernetes, etc., leveraging this knowledge to provide comprehensive solutions.
Provide Scoping activity for all engagement types, including large-scale and complex customer use cases, demonstrating expertise in Scoping Activity.
Able to demonstrate the impact and articulate the benefits of SUSE technologies for users as it relates to their specific use case. Your Communication Skills will be crucial in conveying this value.
Establish and maintain long-term relationships with users and establish contact with their management as required, showcasing strong Relationship Building.
Own entire customer engagement, ensuring successful project delivery and customer satisfaction (scope and timeline). This highlights your expertise in Customer Engagement.
Provide internal feedback and make constructive suggestions to improve Services offerings, contributing to Process Improvement.
Provide leadership and channel feedback throughout the lifecycle of customer engagements.
Understand feature requests and advocate for customers and users with Product Management and/or Engineering, influencing product development.
Work with existing customers to improve customer satisfaction, actively driving positive outcomes.
Work effectively in a proactive manner with both customers and colleagues, including working across Regions, e.g., to share Best Practices and foster Teamwork.
Assist with effective mentorship to new joiners and/or more junior team members, demonstrating your Mentoring capabilities.
Demonstrate extensive customer service and communication skills at all levels, ensuring clear and effective interactions.
Proactively seek feedback and utilize it to develop new skills and/or strengthen existing skills, embodying a Growth Mindset.

Skills Required

Automation Scripting: Proven experience in developing and implementing automation scripts for system configurations and deployments.
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Complementary Technologies: Strong understanding of related open source and cloud-native technologies (e.g., other Linux distributions, Kubernetes).
Customer Engagement: Expert ability to manage and lead customer engagements from initiation to completion.
Mentoring: Experience in guiding and developing less experienced technical professionals.
Product Portfolio Knowledge: Advanced understanding of a range of SUSE's products and solutions portfolio.
Relationship Building: Strong ability to build and maintain effective relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
Scoping Activity: Proficient in leading scoping activities for various engagement types, including large and complex use cases.
Solution Deployment: Advanced expertise in deploying SUSE solutions.
Solution Design: Strong ability to design robust solutions based on customer requirements.
Solution Optimization: Proven skills in optimizing deployed solutions for performance and efficiency.
Stakeholder Management: Skilled in managing expectations and relationships with various stakeholders, internal and external.
Teamwork: Strong collaborative skills, fostering a positive and productive team environment.
Technical Architecture: Advanced ability to design and implement technical architectures using SUSE technologies.
Technological Knowledge: Strong technical experience with IT systems administration, scripting, automation and development

Your Life at SUSE

We deliver the future of open source, and we deliver true freedom for our people. If you’re passionate about what you do, and open to the idea of a global team that works with flexibility, inclusivity and all the exciting possibilities of the tech landscape, then you’ve found your home.

We’re a global team of curious minds, all committed to a common cause: to innovate with open source technology, to empower our customers, and to have fun while we do it.

A career with SUSE means having the flexibility to work from where you’re at, and a team that’s at your back. We’re open to all perspectives, and together, we’re the difference.

SUSE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination because of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship or any other legally protected status.

This position is subject to a background check(s), including criminal, credit, and/or employment references. The candidate is required to complete the background check(s) once an offer has been accepted. This will be conducted by SUSE’s external provider, where legally permitted.

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What We Offer

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements.

SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind.

This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.

If you’re a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!

We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.

Sounds like the right fit for you? Click Apply to submit your resume. A recruiter will contact you if your skills match our current or any future positions. In the meantime, stay updated on the latest SUSE news and job vacancies by joining our Talent Community.

SUSE Values

SUSE's culture is centered on four key values - Choice, Community, Trust, and Innovation - which are deeply integrated with our open source ethos. SUSE fosters a diverse and inclusive environment where our people are encouraged to be themselves.

Choice:

We are continuously making choice happen

We are accountable for our choices

We never get complacent

Community:

Nobody is smarter than everybody

We embrace diversity of thought

We are “open source first, upstream first” where collaboration benefits all

Trust:

We are trusted to deliver with integrity

We offer trust by default, and do not wait for it to be earned

We foster an environment where everyone trusts each other

Innovation:

We foster a culture of experimentation, and embrace change by challenging the norm

We are committed to continuous improvement, creativity and adaptability

Ideas are great, but without execution they are just ideas

About the company

SUSE provides enterprise-grade, open-source Linux and container platforms sold via subscriptions. Its core offering is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which runs on x86-64, ARM, and IBM Z for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, with specialized editions like SLES for SAP Applications and edge-focused SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro. It differentiates itself with long-term enterprise support across diverse architectures, an integrated Kubernetes management layer via Rancher for multi-cloud operations, and container security through NeuVector. Goal: help businesses run mission-critical workloads securely and efficiently across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments using a stable, supported open-source stack and related management and security tools.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$1.2B

Headquarters

Nuremberg, Germany

Founded

1992

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

April 21, 2026 SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA targets regulated enterprise AI budgets.
July 22, 2026 AMD validation expands SUSE AI Factory across EPYC and Instinct stacks.
September 15, 2026 SEAPATH and August 12, 2026 VMware replacements prove buyer demand.

What critics are saying

September 22, 2026 voluntary separation signals cost pressure and organizational churn.
Leap 16 killed YaST, X.org, and 32-bit support, risking admin backlash.
openSUSE Leap 16 mirrors SLES 16 sources, compressing differentiation and pricing power by 2027.

What makes SUSE unique

Leap 16 and SLES 16 share sources, preserving enterprise-community binary compatibility.
SUSE combines Linux, Rancher Prime, edge, and AI into one open infrastructure stack.
SUSE leads niche workloads like SAP, SEAPATH real-time substations, and sovereign AI.

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Pixable Media FZE

Oct 21st, 2026

SUSE brings sovereign control to enterprise agentic AI with NVIDIA.

SUSE brings sovereign control to enterprise agentic AI with NVIDIA. SUSE(R), the leading sovereign open infrastructure company, today introduced new capabilities enabling enterprises to adopt Private Enterprise AI while maintaining complete operational control, security, and governance over their systems. SUSE is enhancing enterprise security for autonomous AI agents by integrating the new NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture into SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. The architecture brings together NVIDIA Vera Rubin for model inference, NVIDIA Vera CPUs running OpenShell for agent execution, and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs running NVIDIA DOCA-powered NVIDIA Sentry for host-independent monitoring and in-silicon policy enforcement. As a launch partner for the OpenShell Reference Architecture, SUSE is helping deliver an open, industrial-scale architecture for building, isolating, observing, and governing autonomous AI agents with enterprise-grade security. By leveraging Kubernetes sandboxing and API gateways alongside OpenShell, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA provides a governed environment that controls agent execution while maintaining peak performance. Key capabilities include: * Active Zero-Trust Governance: Supervisor proxies continually inspect agent traffic, authorize access according to defined policies, and block unauthorized network requests to help prevent code or data exfiltration. * Data Sovereignty & Compliance: Supports agent code execution within the corporate perimeter, with access policies that restrict transfers of enterprise IP and proprietary datasets outside private infrastructure. * Predictable Cost Model: Private model serving, leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices, eliminates third-party per-token public API fees with predictable capacity-based infrastructure investments. Available with SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, the latest release introduces zero-trust agent security via the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture alongside SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for NVIDIA. The solution is designed to deliver immediate support for next-generation NVIDIA silicon. Together, these innovations provide a unified, enterprise-ready foundation for developers to build production AI applications and autonomous agents, platform engineering teams to deploy them, and enterprise IT to govern them across any footprint. "As autonomous AI agents and next-generation silicon advancements reshape enterprise operations, AI sovereignty becomes non-negotiable," said Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief Technology and Product Officer at SUSE. "By combining enterprise Linux engineered for bleeding-edge hardware with active agent security, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA OpenShell equips IT teams to scale AI rapidly while keeping proprietary data, system availability, and budgets strictly under their control." Purpose-Built Infrastructure: SLES for NVIDIA. SLES for NVIDIA empowers enterprises to accelerate AI workloads with immediate access to NVIDIA's latest hardware innovations, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure at the heart of the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture. As a proven, trusted, enterprise-grade Linux foundation, SLES for NVIDIA is designed to scale seamlessly to rack-scale architectures, bridging rapid silicon innovation with strict operational stability and security. Key benefits include: * Accelerates Day-Zero Hardware Adoption: Runs AI workloads on cutting-edge NVIDIA silicon immediately while leveraging a trusted enterprise SLES 16 base, delivering maximum productivity without compromising security or compliance. * Eliminates Production Deployment Friction: Bridges development and production into a unified enterprise footprint, ensuring complete compatibility without requiring replatforming or rewriting code. * Consolidates Enterprise Support: Delivers single-source technical support backed by continuous automated validation across the operating system, Linux kernel, GPU driver stack, and Kubernetes runtime, guaranteeing unbroken stack compatibility while eliminating support friction. Securing public sector innovation with sovereign AI. According to Gartner(R), "by 2027, 35% of countries will be locked into region-specific AI platforms using proprietary contextual data."[1] Building on its existing relationship with SUSE, Mexico's Guanajuato Secretariat of Finance is leveraging SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA to validate sovereign AI capabilities to build a cognitive government for its citizens. * Cognitive Government POC: The Secretariat is actively testing SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA to validate smart, AI-driven public services and streamline internal workflows. * Workload & Hardware Acceleration: The POC evaluates AI workload deployment on high-performance GPU infrastructure, bridging the gap between initial software testing and enterprise-grade production. * Sovereign Infrastructure Foundation: By integrating SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA into its broader SLES and SUSE Multi-Linux Manager strategy, Guanajuato maintains full data sovereignty, centralized management, and compliance across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. "Using SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA in our environment gives us a clear path toward becoming a truly cognitive government," said José Luis Huerta Santos, Planning and IT Architecture, Secretariat of Finance of Guanajuato. "Having a sovereign, open source foundation allows us to rapidly evaluate AI workloads while ensuring our citizens' data, infrastructure availability, and operational costs remain strictly under our control." ISV Certifications Expand the SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA Ecosystem. To simplify software validation, eliminate integration hurdles, and ensure dependable long-term support, SUSE is introducing a two-tiered ISV certification structure. This framework gives customers complete confidence that SUSE AI Factory operates seamlessly alongside partner technologies, backed by joint validation and firmly aligned vendor commitments that ensure clear support accountability and streamlined issue resolution: * " Ready for" Certification: Partner self-validation confirming software compatibility and committed vendor support on either SUSE AI Factory or SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. * " Certified for" Certification: Jointly engineered and validated configurations featuring fully automated deployment and lifecycle management across both SUSE AI Factory and SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. "To drive real AI transformation, enterprises need more than baseline infrastructure, they need an expansive, trusted ecosystem," said Rhys Oxenham, general manager of AI at SUSE. "By establishing a rigorous ISV certification program for SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, and expanding our partner catalogue with top-tier third-party software, we are enriching our portfolio with pre-validated capabilities. Together with our ISV partners, we offer a deeply-integrated fully supported platform that allows customers to move seamlessly from experimentation into sovereign, enterprise-grade production." Newly integrated ecosystem partners & use cases: * Klique (by ClearML): Serves as an enterprise AI control plane that provides LLM gateway routing, AI resource management, and governance across shared infrastructure. * Tensormesh: Provides high-performance Key-Value (KV) cache management designed to optimize AI inference for agentic AI, RAG, and long-context enterprise workloads. * Traefik Labs: Traefik Hub brings runtime governance to SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, using its AI Gateway and MCP Gateway to route model and agent tool calls through a central control point that masks sensitive data, blocks unsafe prompts, and controls token budgets. * AlchemiStudio: Provides a comprehensive sovereign AI platform designed to deliver governance, real-time cost, budget, AI gateway, and compliance control on customer-controlled infrastructure. * Wiser Technology: Delivers a sovereign AI platform named Preslav that provides real-time decision support by ingesting live digital twins from vehicle fleets and sensors. * CloudCasa by Catalogic: Delivers enterprise backup and disaster recovery for AI workloads running on Kubernetes within the SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA ecosystem, protecting full inference stacks including vLLM chatbots and Milvus vector stores. Operationalizing hybrid quantum intelligence with Fujitsu. SUSE and Fujitsu (FSAS) are partnering to deliver an AI-driven hybrid quantum platform integrating SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA and NVIDIA CUDA-Q software on Fujitsu servers, designed to bring hybrid quantum intelligence out of the research lab and into the enterprise data center. This represents the first time enterprise-grade hybrid quantum computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise are delivered as a unified, production-ready stack on sovereign infrastructure. "As Fujitsu expands its technology portfolio with our new quantum computer and Digital Annealer, this partnership delivers the secure infrastructure foundation enterprises need," said Udo Wuertz, CTO Fsas Technologies EMEA at FSAS. "Running this stack on Fujitsu servers allows customers to supercharge their existing hardware investments and connect quantum simulation directly to production applications." 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Yahoo Finance

Oct 21st, 2026

SUSE and Fujitsu launch hybrid quantum and AI stack on sovereign infrastructure

SUSE and Fujitsu are partnering to bring hybrid quantum and AI computing into enterprise data centres. The platform combines SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform, running on Fujitsu servers. It is due in late 2026. The companies say the stack lets system administrators, cloud architects, and platform engineering teams manage quantum workloads with familiar IT tools, without specialist quantum physics skills. It treats quantum circuits as extensions of SUSE AI Factory workloads. Data stays on-premises or within private infrastructure, which gives customers control over residency and security. Buyers also get pre-validated reference architectures and a single support contract for hardware and software. "AI handles the heavy lifting behind the scenes," said Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE's chief technology and product officer.

Esselbach Internet Solutions

Oct 16th, 2026

Linux security roundup: SUSE kernel patches 110 CVEs, RHEL and Rocky hit with critical identity patch.

Linux security roundup: SUSE kernel patches 110 CVEs, RHEL and Rocky hit with critical identity patch. Published 54 minutes ago by Xaren Lysander Valtor SUSE has released a significant kernel update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5, addressing 110 vulnerabilities, marking it as the largest patch of the day. Critical updates were issued for the idm:DL1 identity-management module on RHEL 8 and Rocky Linux 8, while Oracle's critical patch focused on 389-ds-base for Oracle Linux 7. Debian targeted browser vulnerabilities, closing 59 CVEs in firefox-esr and 37 in Chromium, while also addressing issues in MariaDB and GStreamer plugins. Ubuntu issued three updates, notably an Azure kernel patch for 16.04 LTS that requires a reboot, and additional updates for Go and RabbitMQ across various versions

Employee Benefits

Sep 28th, 2026

Suse Software Solutions to explore employee experience at Employee Benefits Live 2026.

Suse Software Solutions to explore employee experience at Employee Benefits Live 2026. Hayley Blake (pictured above), director - employee engagement and wellbeing at Suse Software Solutions, will present a session on employee experience at Employee Benefits Live 2026. Her session, titled 'Reimagining the employee experience for longer, successful careers, will take place on Wednesday 14 October at 12pm. The presentation will be focused on Suse's Futureselves Discovery programme, which is a targeted, six-month development initiative for employees aged 50 and above. "It hones in on looking to the future, giving our more mature people the skills, tools and space to identify their goals and plan for their future, whether that might be exploring career development, personal goals, and aligning their personal and professional futures," Blake said. She will also cover the purpose, concept and goals of the programme, why the organisation focused on this demographic, the pillars and delivery of modules, building community, and the outcome and future. Blake hopes attendees will learn how investing in later career talent drives engagement and motivation for a continued successful career, and the importance of recognising the value of driving inclusion for sometimes overlooked groups of employees. "I hope people take away an understanding of the Futureselves principles and how they might use those principles to run a similar programme, and that by widening the net beyond a usual pool of high performing talent, the result can be highly experienced and knowledgeable people with a renewed sense of purpose and motivation," she said. Employee Benefits Live 2026 will take place on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October 2026 at Excel London. The event will provide benefits and HR professionals with the opportunity to learn and develop from industry figures. New for 2026 are four themed stages focusing on whole person wellbeing, future of work, employee experience and engagement, and better benefits, smarter spend.

The Register

Sep 22nd, 2026

SUSE offers 'voluntary separation' to long-serving staff as business reshapes

SUSE has introduced a voluntary separation programme for eligible employees as part of efforts to align its business structure with strategic priorities, The Register has confirmed. Multiple sources said the Linux vendor approached long-serving staff, particularly those with over ten years at the company. Lisa Sherwell, People, Strategy and Transformation Executive, contacted employees with the offer following an online company meeting. A SUSE representative stated participation is voluntary with no predefined targets, highlighting industry-leading staff retention rates of 6 per cent in core operational areas. The programme follows unionisation of SUSE's Czech employees earlier this year, who formed the SUSE Workers Union as part of the Czech ICT Union. There is no evidence linking the two developments. The changes coincide with modifications to SUSE's distribution, including removal of longstanding tools in openSUSE Leap 16.

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