Technical Architect

Job Description - Platform / Software Architect
Experience
12+ years of relevant experience in Software Development, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Automation, or Technical Architecture.
Role Summary
Experienced Platform / Software Architect responsible for defining technical architecture and strategy across RHEL/Linux, Platform Security, Security Compliance, Jenkins, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. The role focuses on architecture, technical strategy, security/compliance, modernization, automation, and cross-team technical leadership, while providing hands-on technical guidance for complex solutions.
Key Responsibilities

• Define platform/software architecture, technical strategy, standards, and roadmap.
• Design scalable, secure, reusable, and maintainable platform solutions and automation.
• Define architecture for RHEL platform automation, security, hardening, and compliance validation.
• Drive security-by-design and compliance-by-design across platform solutions.
• Architect CI/CD solutions using Jenkins for build, deployment, validation, and release automation.
• Define solutions for Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift environments.
• Drive cloud-native, containerized, and microservices-based platform solutions.
• Define reusable Shell, Python-based automation and platform utilities.
• Evaluate technologies and tools based on security, scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and cost.
• Lead technical POCs and provide hands-on guidance for complex technical problems.
• Conduct architecture, design, code, security, and automation reviews.
• Drive root-cause resolution of complex platform, security, compliance, CI/CD, and deployment issues.
• Establish engineering, security, compliance, coding, and automation standards.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, Security, Product, Architecture, and Operations teams.
• Drive platform modernization, automation maturity, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and GitHub Copilot. Required Skills
  RHEL / Platform
  • Strong expertise in RHEL/Linux architecture and administration.
  • Strong understanding of Linux system architecture, networking, processes, services, permissions, logging, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong Shell, Python scripting skills.
  • Experience designing Linux/system-level solutions and automation. Platform Security & Compliance
    • Strong expertise in RHEL/Linux security and hardening.
    • Experience defining and validating secure configurations and security controls.
    • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, access controls, certificates, vulnerabilities, and remediation.
    • Strong understanding of security compliance requirements and compliance validation.
    • Experience designing security and compliance automation.
    • Ability to translate security/compliance requirements into technical solutions. CI/CD, Cloud & Containers
      • Strong experience with Jenkins and CI/CD architecture.
      • Strong knowledge of Azure.
      • Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
      • Knowledge of OpenShift, microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.
      • Strong understanding of Git and DevOps practices. Development
        • Strong software development background with Shell, Python.

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