Technical Architect

Job description

• Define platform/software architecture, technical strategy, standards, and roadmap.
• Design scalable, secure, reusable, and maintainable platform solutions and automation.
• Define architecture for RHEL platform automation, security, hardening, and compliance validation.
• Drive security-by-design and compliance-by-design across platform solutions.
• Architect CI/CD solutions using Jenkins for build, deployment, validation, and release automation.
• Define solutions for Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift environments.
• Drive cloud-native, containerized, and microservices-based platform solutions.
• Define reusable Shell, Python-based automation and platform utilities.
• Evaluate technologies and tools based on security, scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and cost.
• Lead technical POCs and provide hands-on guidance for complex technical problems.
• Conduct architecture, design, code, security, and automation reviews.
• Drive root-cause resolution of complex platform, security, compliance, CI/CD, and deployment issues.
• Establish engineering, security, compliance, coding, and automation standards.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, Security, Product, Architecture, and Operations teams.
• Drive platform modernization, automation maturity, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and GitHub Copilot.

• Strong expertise in RHEL/Linux architecture and administration.
• Strong understanding of Linux system architecture, networking, processes, services, permissions, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Shell, Python scripting skills.
• Experience designing Linux/system-level solutions and automation.

• Strong expertise in RHEL/Linux security and hardening.
• Experience defining and validating secure configurations and security controls.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, access controls, certificates, vulnerabilities, and remediation.
• Strong understanding of security compliance requirements and compliance validation.
• Experience designing security and compliance automation.
• Ability to translate security/compliance requirements into technical solutions.

• Strong experience with Jenkins and CI/CD architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Azure.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of OpenShift, microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Git and DevOps practices.

• Strong software development background with Shell, Python.
• Working knowledge of C++ or Java preferred.
• Understanding of APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Experience with Cursor, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI tools.
• Ability to leverage AI for development, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and productivity.
• Understanding of responsible use and validation of AI-generated code.

• Define reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable technical solutions.
• Drive architecture reviews and technical governance across teams.
• Assess existing platforms and drive modernization and transformation.
• Establish platform, security, compliance, development, and automation standards.
• Identify architectural risks, technical gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Provide technical direction to Senior Developers, Technical Leads, QA, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers.
• Drive cross-team technical alignment and resolution of complex issues.
• Balance security, compliance, scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and cost in architecture decisions.

• Qualifications: BE BTECH MCA
• Range of Year Experience-Min Year: 12
• Range of Year Experience-Max Year: 18