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Sales Development Representative SEA - Red Hat

IBM

Sales & Business Development

Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Posted on Mar 11, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Sales Development Representative specializing in Red Hat, you will drive business for Red Hat products and services. Your focus will be on promoting and selling solutions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Edge. Your primary responsibilities will include:
• Drive Business Growth: Deliver sales results by identifying and pursuing new sales opportunities, developing and executing sales strategies, and building strong relationships with customers to promote Red Hat products and services.
• Promote Red Hat Solutions: Support the sales process by providing product information, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts to showcase the value of Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Edge.
• Execute Sales Strategies: Implement sales plans and tactics to achieve sales targets, expand existing customer relationships, and identify new business opportunities for Red Hat products and services.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• >3 Years Experiences as SDR / BDR
• Proven track record on achievement for Leads Generation
• Red Hat Product Knowledge: Experience with Red Hat products and services, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Edge.

• Sales Strategy Development: Experience with developing and executing sales strategies to drive business growth and achieve sales targets.
• Solution Selling: Experience with promoting and selling solutions to customers, including providing product information, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts.
• Customer Relationship Building: Experience with building strong relationships with customers to promote products and services. • Sales Process Implementation: Experience with implementing sales plans and tactics to expand existing customer relationships and identify new business opportunities.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Exposure to Cloud Computing: Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and migration strategies can be beneficial in promoting Red Hat solutions, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
• Knowledge of IT Automation: Understanding of automation tools and processes can be helpful in showcasing the value of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to customers.
• Familiarity with Edge Computing: Basic understanding of edge computing concepts and applications can be advantageous in promoting Red Hat Edge solutions.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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