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.

• 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 Service Now), 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, Git Ops, Event‑Driven Ansible, and Dev Ops 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, Open Shift, etc.)

• 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, Salt Stack, or Power Shell DSC) – migration experience is a significant advantage
• Proficiency in Python, YAML, Bash, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices
• Solid understanding of modern Dev Ops tooling and practices (Git, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins/Git Lab CI/Git Hub 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)

• 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/Salt Stack to Ansible Automation Platform
• Network automation experience (Cisco ACI, Arista, Juniper, F5, etc.)
• Integration of Ansible with Service Now (or other ITSM) for closed‑loop remediation and CMDB synchronization
• Automation of Red Hat Open Shift or Kubernetes Day‑2 operations
• Familiarity with secret management (Hashi Corp Vault, Cyber Ark, AWS Secrets Manager)…