Domain Architect - Ansible, Terraform, GITHub

Pune, Maharashtra

Job Summary

Job Summary : Overview: Seeking a highly experienced Solution Architect with 10-15 years of strong technical and architectural expertise across software design, infrastructure automation, hybrid cloud platforms, and DevOps toolchains, with a strong background in infra/platform development and hands-on experience with configuration management tools and RESTful APIs. The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, orchestration platforms, and modern automation practices, along with solid proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise solutions. This role demands strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, as the architect will collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, senior stakeholders, and customers to define end-to-end architecture, drive technical strategy, and lead execution. Job Responsibilities : Primary Responsibilities: • Design and develop automation and DevSecOps solutions • Implement and manage configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef • Establish standards and guardrails for automated provisioning, configuration management, and CI/CD integration. • Drive automation across infrastructure, deployment, and operational workflows for improved efficiency and repeatability. • Own architectural decisions across application, infrastructure, integration, data, and security layers. • Define reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable frameworks to accelerate solution development.



• Work with RESTful APIs to automate infrastructure and platform tasks • Manage and maintain Linux-based infrastructures • Analyze and solve problems related to infrastructure and platform automation • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members • Continuously improve and optimize automation processes • Collaborate with other teams such as Development, Operations and Security to identify opportunities for automation. : Exclusions:\r\n•\r\nDevOps engineers with public cloud work experience (AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Build and Release DevOps Engineer) and no prior programming expertise\r\n•\r\nSystem Administrators.

Key Responsibilities

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Skill Requirements

Skill Requirement : Required Skills: • Strong experience with end-to-end solution architecture, including design of scalable, reliable, and secure systems. • Architectural and implementation experience with IaC solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools. • Strong understanding of infrastructure and platform development principles and experience with programming languages such as Python, GoLang, Ruby and/or Java for developing automation scripts. • Hands-on experience with at multiple configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef. This includes proficiency in writing playbooks, cookbook, modules & creating and modifying data structures. • Experience with creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining automation scripts,



utilizing libraries and frameworks such as Python's Ansible custom module and libraries, Chef's knife and Terraform’ s provider plugins. • Working experience with RESTful APIs and understanding of API integration with automation tools • Solid experience with Linux-based infrastructures and administration, including proficiency in command-line interface and shell scripting. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI • Expert‐level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and container lifecycle management • Strong understanding of Bare-Metal Server, Storage (SAN/NAS), Network, Security, Enterprise Business Applications, and related technologies • Experience in leading teams, leading solutions during pursuit/solutioning process • Experience in preparing end to end architecture diagram for the solution • Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning sessions. • Provide mentorship, thought leadership, and technical guidance to engineering teams and junior architects. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to debug and troubleshoot complex automation issues.

Other Requirements

Other Requirement : Desired Skills: • Expert‐level knowledge of: • Docker and container lifecycle management • Kubernetes (deployment patterns, networking, security, operators, Helm, GitOps) • Extensive experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash and PowerShell scripting • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI • Experience with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack

📌 Domain Architect - Ansible, Terraform, GITHub (Pune)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Pune