Lead Architect Enterprise Ansible Automation Platform

Lead Architect Enterprise Ansible / Automation Platform

Role Purpose
Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical design for the enterprise Ansible platform, Chef-to-Ansible migration, and automation operating model.

Key Responsibilities

• Define target architecture for Ansible on CIQ Ascender, including execution nodes, Private Automation Hub, Git, SSO, credentials and security controls.
• Define Dev/QA/Production platform architecture and deployment approach.
• Establish enterprise standards for Ansible collections, roles, playbooks and reusable automation.
• Design security, credential/secrets management, configuration management and release architecture.
• Define integration with Git/CI-CD, security scanning and enterprise infrastructure services.
• Lead Chef estate assessment and define migration patterns from cookbooks to Ansible.
• Establish technical governance and architecture guardrails for the migration factory.
• Define dual-run, cutover and Chef decommissioning architecture.
• Work with Windows, Linux, SAP, WebMethods, CLOUDx and IM R&D SMEs on workload-specific migration patterns.
• Own technical decisions through POC, implementation, migration and production transition.

Required Skills

• Strong enterprise architecture experience in Ansible-based infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on knowledge of Ansible, Git, CI/CD, IaC and configuration management.
• Experience with Chef and Chef-to-Ansible modernization/migration strongly preferred.
• Linux and Windows infrastructure automation experience.
• Security, secrets/credential management, RBAC/SSO and enterprise governance knowledge.
• Experience designing highly available enterprise automation platforms.
• CIQ Ascender or Ansible AWX/Automation Controller experience highly desirable.