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
- Solid 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.