RHEL and Ansible Architect

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an RHEL and Ansible Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and enterprise infrastructure technologies. In this role, you will act as a trusted technical leader across both pre-sales and delivery, helping customers define and implement their infrastructure modernization journey.

You will engage early in the sales cycle to understand customer needs, shape solutions, and support proposals. During delivery, you will lead the architecture and implementation of RHEL and Ansible-based solutions, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies.

By leveraging Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible Automation Platform, hybrid cloud, and automation practices, you will help customers standardize operations, improve security and compliance, optimize infrastructure management, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

What you will do:

Engage in pre-sales activities, including customer discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design

Partner with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, define scope, and build compelling technical proposals

Support RFP/RFI responses and present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders

Assess customer infrastructure environments and propose optimized architectures

Design and implement enterprise solutions based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible Automation Platform

Lead infrastructure modernization and automation initiatives across datacenter and hybrid cloud environments

Develop automation solutions for system administration, configuration management, patch management, compliance, and operational processes

Provide technical leadership during delivery, ensuring alignment with architectural best practices

Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, helping define infrastructure and automation roadmaps

Collaborate with Product Engineering, Consulting, and Support teams to deliver high-quality solutions

Drive adoption of automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern IT operations practices

Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reusable assets, and best practices

What you will bring:

8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, consulting, systems engineering, or platform architecture roles

Proven experience in pre-sales or customer-facing roles, supporting complex solution sales cycles

Strong expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Hands-on experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and enterprise automation initiatives

Experience managing and designing large-scale Linux environments

Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, security, and virtualization technologies

Experience with automation tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, including Ansible and Terraform

Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments and infrastructure modernization programs

Strong communication and presentation skills, including executive-level storytelling

Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and architectures

Fluent in English (written and verbal)

Red Hat certifications such as RHCSA, RHCE, or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation are a plus

About Red Hat

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