Solution Architect

Position Specifications

Specification

Details

Position Title

Solution Architect (RHEL & Cloud Specialist)

Work Model / Location

Remote

Experience Level

Senior (Minimum 5+ Years in Architectural Roles)

Language Requirements

Portuguese and English

Primary Technology Stack

RHEL, Ansible, Python, AWS/Azure/GCP, K8s

1.3 Strategic Importance of the Role

The Solution Architect (RHEL & Cloud Specialist) occupies a pivotal role within our Technology Office, serving as the bridge between high-level business strategy and technical execution. As our infrastructure transitions toward a sophisticated hybrid-cloud model, the strategic governance of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) estate becomes paramount for maintaining security, compliance, and operational reliability. This role is not merely advisory; it is a hands-on leadership position tasked with architecting the automated scaffolds that support our entire digital product portfolio.

Executive Summary: We are seeking a proactive technical leader who refuses to accept "status quo" system inefficiencies. The ideal candidate will design and govern resilient solutions that utilize Ansible for massive-scale automation, ensuring our hybrid-cloud platforms are self-healing, secure, and performant. You will be expected to guide engineering teams through complex migrations while remaining deeply connected to the code and configurations that define our environment.

In the context of the 2026 technology landscape, where cloud costs and sovereign data requirements are increasingly complex, this Architect will ensure our RHEL foundation provides the necessary abstraction and stability to move workloads between on-premise virtualization and public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with zero friction. The successful candidate will be a champion of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD , moving us closer to a fully autonomous data center vision.

2. Key Responsibilities & Strategic Objectives

The Solution Architect (RHEL & Cloud Specialist) is a high-impact role designed to steer the technical direction of the organizations infrastructure. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that all technological solutions are not only fit for purpose today but are engineered to scale for the demands of 2026 and beyond. This involves a dual focus on high-level strategic vision and deep-dive technical implementation, particularly within the Red Hat ecosystem and hyperscale cloud environments.

2.1 Architectural Design & Strategy

Design and maintain comprehensive end-to-end solution architectures that integrate on-premise data centers with public cloud platforms, ensuring seamless workload portability and high availability.

Develop and document scalable, secure, and resilient architectural blueprints for hybrid-cloud deployments, utilizing RHEL as the primary operating system foundation.

Translate complex business requirements and organizational goals into detailed technical specifications and infrastructure designs.

Evaluate and select appropriate virtualization technologies (VMware, KVM) and cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) that align with the organizations long-term cost-efficiency and performance targets.

Architect disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that ensure data integrity and minimal downtime across geographically dispersed sites.

Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure solution designs remain compliant with the broader organizational technology roadmap and security policies.

2.2 Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Spearhead the transition to a fully automated infrastructure environment, reducing manual intervention and human error through robust Infrastructure as Code practices.

Architect enterprise-wide automation frameworks using Ansible for the consistent configuration, provisioning, and management of RHEL environments.

Define and enforce standards for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to manage multi-cloud resource lifecycles.

Oversee the development of automated compliance and security hardening playbooks to ensure all systems meet internal and regulatory standards upon deployment.

Design automated patching and update workflows that leverage Red Hat Satellite or Ansible Automation Platform to maintain fleet-wide system health.

Standardize CI/CD pipeline integration for infrastructure components, ensuring that environment changes are tested, version-controlled, and deployed via GitLab CI or Jenkins.

Strategic Objective: The "Zero-Touch" Environment

The Architect is tasked with reducing "Toil" by 40% within the first 18 months. This is achieved by abstracting underlying hardware and cloud complexities through a unified, Ansible-driven automation layer that empowers developers to self-service their infrastructure needs within governed guardrails.

2.3 Technical Governance & Leadership

Provide the technical leadership necessary to maintain architectural integrity and foster a culture of engineering excellence across DevOps and Infrastructure teams.

Establish and chair the Architectural Design Review board for infrastructure projects, ensuring all solutions adhere to established standards for performance and security.

Mentor and provide technical guidance to Senior DevOps Engineers, SREs, and System Administrators, fostering a deep understanding of RHEL internals and cloud-native patterns.

Drive the adoption of best practices in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), ensuring teams build portable and secure microservices architectures.

Maintain a comprehensive Service Catalog and Architectural Decision Log (ADL) to document the "why" behind critical technology choices.

Lead vendor engagement and technology pilots (POCs) to assess emerging tools and their potential impact on the organizational tech stack.

2.4 Proactive System Optimization

Serve as a proactive agent for change by identifying and resolving structural weaknesses and performance bottlenecks before they impact the business.

Conduct regular architectural health checks and performance audits of the RHEL fleet and cloud environments to identify areas of waste or inefficiency.

Analyze system telemetry and monitoring data to identify recurring performance bottlenecks, designing architectural or automated remediations to eliminate them.

Proactively optimize cloud spend by designing architectures that leverage spot instances, auto-scaling, and right-sized resource allocation.

Identify architectural "technical debt" and create structured plans for modernization or decommissioning of legacy systems.

Collaborate with Security teams to proactively address emerging threat vectors by updating architectural patterns and hardening standards.

3. Core Technical Proficiencies

The candidate must demonstrate a high level of technical mastery across a diverse stack of infrastructure and automation technologies. As a Senior Solution Architect, the expectation is not only to understand these tools individually but to have the proven ability to integrate them into cohesive, high-performance architectures that serve complex enterprise needs in a 2026 technical landscape.

Technology Domain

Mandatory Technical Requirements

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Expert Administration: Deep-level knowledge of RHEL 8 and 9, including advanced system internals, kernel parameter tuning, and troubleshooting complex OS-level performance issues. Security Hardening: Mastery of SELinux (policy development and troubleshooting), Firewalld, and implementing OpenSCAP for automated compliance auditing. Lifecycle Management: Expert implementation of Red Hat Satellite for managing content views, repositories, and automated provisioning workflows. Storage & Identity: Proficiency in LVM, Stratis, and integration with SSSD/Identity Management (IdM/FreeIPA) and Active Directory.

Automation & Scripting

Ansible Mastery: Advanced use of Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platf