Senior Architect, Ansible - FSI

The Red Hat North America Financial Services Consulting team is looking for an experienced Senior 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.

What you will do:

• 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.)

What you will bring:

• 7+ years of hands-on enterprise IT experience in infrastructure, operations, or development

• 5+ 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)

Nice to have:

• Active Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

• 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

Pay Transparency

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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! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 

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