Solutions Architect (Contract Position)

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Unusual Ventures Citi Ventures and more. As AI accelerates code creation the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code testing deployments application security reliability compliance and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year Harness powered over 185M deployments 82M builds 18T flag evaluations 8M security scans 9.1B optimized tests 3T protected API calls and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend enabling customers like United Airlines Morningstar and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75% reduce cloud costs by up to 60% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

In this role you will partner closely with enterprise customers across Brazil and Latin America to architect design and implement DevSecOps FinOps and Engineering Excellence solutions using the Harness platform.

You will collaborate with Harness Engineering Sales Engineering and Customer Success as well as customer teams including DevOps SRE Platform Engineering Cloud Infrastructure Finance and Engineering Leadership. Your mission is to help customers modernize and scale their CI/CD practices in a way that is secure cost-efficient reliable and aligned with business outcomes.

This is a hands-on customer-facing role in a high-growth global SaaS company supporting organizations as they evolve their cloud-native and Kubernetes adoption across AWS GCP and Azure

• Engage directly with customer technical teams to assess and understand existing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines governance models and cloud cost management practices

• Architect and implement scalable repeatable and production-ready Harness configurations tailored to enterprise and mid-market environments in Brazil

• Work with engineering leadership and executives to understand business goals (speed reliability cost control compliance) and translate them into effective CI/CD and DevSecOps solutions

• Define and document best practices reference architectures and automation patterns based on real customer implementations

• Create reusable templates pipelines and governance models to accelerate customer onboarding and long-term success

• Contribute to internal enablement technical documentation and the Harness Community sharing knowledge and practical implementation guidance

• Provide advisory support on DevSecOps cloud-native CI/CD Kubernetes and FinOps best practices

• Partner closely with Pre-Sales Sales Engineering and Post-Sales teams to ensure smooth handoffs and strong customer outcomes

• Act as a trusted technical advisor building strong relationships with customers through deep technical expertise and professional communication

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent professional experience

• 37 years of experience in DevOps Platform Engineering SRE or Cloud Engineering roles

• Strong hands-on experience with several of the following technologies:

  • CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Bitbucket TeamCity Bamboo Travis CI

  • Containers & Kubernetes: Kubernetes Helm Kustomize OpenShift

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (very common in Brazil) GCP Azure

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform CloudFormation

  • Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus Grafana ELK Splunk New Relic Dynatrace

  • Scripting & OS: Linux Bash Python PowerShell

• Experience delivering custom technical solutions for customers ideally in a customer-facing or consulting role

• Strong communication skills able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineers architects and leadership

• Comfortable working in English with global teams (spoken and written)

• Curious collaborative and improvement-oriented with a strong bias toward execution and results

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced scaling SaaS environment

• Willingness to travel up to 25% primarily within Brazil and occasionally Latin America

Work Location

• Sao Paulo

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
• How Harness runs 16 startups within a startup at scale Jyoti Bansal
• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.

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