work from home - Ansible Automation Architect

Job Description

Primary job responsibilities

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape the customer’s use cases and architecture design decisions
• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
• Design, create, and deliver content that enables the broader DBS organization to sell (Presales), service (Consulting), and support our cloud solutions at scale
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale DBS’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk
• Demonstrate innovative thinking in DevOps community

Job Requirements

Required skills

• Background in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain
• 8+ years of experience as a solutions architect, enterprise architect, or architect consulting delivery role
• 4+ years of experience focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures
• Solid background in consultative customer engagement with either a major consulting services organization or within the services division of a major software company
• Demonstrated record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior IT and business executives
• Basic understanding of network technologies and services like routing and switching, DNS, Firewalls, Load Balancers
• Experience in Linux systems administration and managing software like Apache, MySQL, etc.
• Experience implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous delivery (CD) pipeline
• Experience with container management and orchestration tools
• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with the open source communities via Email and IRC
• Familiarity with security fundamentals at the infrastructure and operating system level
• Outstanding verbal and written communications skills, including extensive experience presenting to C-level executives at large firms
• Solutions sales mentality in an environment with multiple products and services
• Ability to work seamlessly with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers
• Balance of strategic and tactical skills with a high level of intellectual agility and capacity for original thought
• Ability to study and quickly learn and put into practice new topics
• Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation
• Intermediate level scripting skills using Bash and Python

The following will be considered a plus:

• Proficiency in Python
• Experience developing against APIs and web services like SOAP and REST
• Experience with expect scripting
• Understanding of Git
• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas