[Hiring] Architect, Ansible @Red Hat

Role Description

The Red Hat North America Financial Services Consulting team is looking for an experienced Architect specializing in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). In this customer-facing role, you will act as a trusted advisor to some of the largest banks, insurance companies, and capital markets firms worldwide, driving the adoption of enterprise-grade automation built on Ansible.

You will work remotely and on-site to design, deliver, and operationalize resilient, secure, and reusable automation solutions that solve real business problems in highly regulated environments.

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of complex Ansible Automation Platform solutions for Financial Services customers.
• Translate regulatory, risk, availability, and operational requirements into scalable, secure, and reusable automation frameworks, playbooks, roles, and collections.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact and trusted advisor on automation strategy for assigned accounts.
• Conduct scoping / pre-sales calls, discovery workshops, maturity assessments, and proof-of-concept engagements to identify and prioritize automation opportunities.
• Build and deliver production-grade playbooks and content for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, compliance as code, security orchestration, and Day-2 operations.
• Integrate AAP with customer ecosystems: public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP), VMware, network devices, ITSM (especially ServiceNow), CMDBs, identity systems, and secret management.
• Troubleshoot complex, multi-system automation issues in production environments.
• Mentor customer teams and junior Red Hat consultants on Ansible best practices, GitOps, Event-Driven Ansible, and DevOps culture.
• Contribute reusable assets (roles, collections, reference architectures) to Red Hat’s internal knowledge base and the broader Ansible community.
• Maintain deep expertise in the AAP portfolio and stay current on new features (Automation Controller, Execution Environments, Private Automation Hub, Content Collections, Lightspeed, Event-Driven Ansible, etc.).
• Obtain and maintain at least two relevant active Red Hat certifications (e.g., RHCE, Ansible Automation, Advanced Automation, OpenShift, etc.).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on enterprise IT experience in infrastructure, operations, or development.
• 3+ years of deep production experience with Red Hat Ansible or upstream Ansible (writing complex playbooks, roles, custom modules, and collections).
• Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise automation solutions in large, regulated environments.
• Strong experience with at least two legacy configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, or PowerShell DSC) – migration experience is a significant advantage.
• Proficiency in Python, YAML, Bash, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Solid understanding of modern DevOps tooling and practices (Git, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins/GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Tekton, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Hands-on experience integrating automation with major public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualization platforms.
• Working knowledge of IT security and compliance fundamentals (CIS benchmarks, DISA STIGs, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, etc.).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – comfortable engaging both engineers and C-level executives.
• Demonstrated consulting delivery experience (scoping, workshop facilitation, statement-of-work creation, project execution).

Requirements

• Active Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) - nice to have.
• Financial Services industry experience (banking, capital markets, insurance) – highly desirable.
• Experience with Event-Driven Ansible, Ansible Lightspeed, or writing custom AAP execution environments.
• Proven large-scale migrations from Puppet/Chef/SaltStack to Ansible Automation Platform.
• Network automation experience (Cisco ACI, Arista, Juniper, F5, etc.).
• Integration of Ansible with ServiceNow (or other ITSM) for closed-loop remediation and CMDB synchronization.
• Automation of Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes Day-2 operations.
• Familiarity with secret management (HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, AWS Secrets Manager) and identity federation.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care.
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan.
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents.
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave.
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!