Solution Architect - Infrastructure Automation - Bangalore Location!!!

Overview: Seeking a highly experienced Solution Architect with 10-15 years of strong technical and architectural expertise across software design, infrastructure automation, hybrid cloud platforms, and DevOps toolchains, with a solid background in infra/platform development and hands-on experience with configuration management tools and RESTful APIs. The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, orchestration platforms, and modern automation practices, along with solid proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise solutions. This role demands strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, as the architect will collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, senior stakeholders, and customers to define end-to-end architecture, drive technical strategy, and lead execution. Primary Responsibilities: - Design and develop automation and DevSecOps solutions - Implement and manage configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef - Establish standards and guardrails for automated provisioning, configuration management, and CI/CD integration. - Drive automation across infrastructure, deployment, and operational workflows for improved efficiency and repeatability. - Own architectural decisions across application, infrastructure, integration, data, and security layers. - Define reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable frameworks to accelerate solution development. - Work with RESTful APIs to automate infrastructure and platform tasks - Manage and maintain Linux-based infrastructures - Analyze and solve problems related to infrastructure and platform automation - Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members - Continuously improve and optimize automation processes - Collaborate with other teams such as Development, Operations and Security to identify opportunities for automation Required Skills: - Strong experience with end-to-end solution architecture, including design of scalable, reliable, and secure systems. - Architectural and implementation experience with IaC solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools. - Strong understanding of infrastructure and platform development principles and experience with programming languages such as Python, GoLang, Ruby and/or Java for developing automation scripts. - Hands-on experience with at multiple configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef. This includes proficiency in writing playbooks, cookbook, modules & creating and modifying data structures. - Experience with creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining automation scripts, utilizing libraries and frameworks such as Python's Ansible custom module and libraries, Chef's knife and Terraform s provider plugins. - Working experience with RESTful APIs and understanding of API integration with automation tools - Robust experience with Linux-based infrastructures and administration, including proficiency in command-line interface and shell scripting. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI - Expertlevel knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and container lifecycle management - Strong understanding of Bare-Metal Server, Storage (SAN/NAS), Network, Security, Enterprise Business Applications, and related technologies - Experience in leading teams, leading solutions during pursuit/solutioning process - Experience in preparing end to end architecture diagram for the solution - Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning sessions. - Provide mentorship, thought leadership, and technical guidance to engineering teams and junior architects. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to debug and troubleshoot complex automation issues Desired Skills: - Expertlevel knowledge of: - Docker and container lifecycle management - Kubernetes (deployment patterns, networking, security, operators, Helm, GitOps) - Extensive experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash and PowerShell scripting - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI - Experience with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP - Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack - Exclusions: - DevOps engineers with public cloud work experience (AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Build and Release DevOps Engineer) and no prior programming expertise - System Administrators Overview: Seeking a highly experienced Solution Architect with 10-15 years of strong technical and architectural expertise across software design, infrastructure automation, hybrid cloud platforms, and DevOps toolchains, with a solid background in infra/platform development and hands-on experience with configuration management tools and RESTful APIs. The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ia