Senior Architect, Enterprise Ansible & Chef Migration

Quantum Integrators; Raritan (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Integrators is seeking a Lead Architect to own target-state architecture for a large life sciences infrastructure automation program. You will design an enterprise Ansible platform on CIQ Ascender, supervise an AI-assisted migration factory, and move ~1,600 Chef cookbooks to Ansible while retiring Chef globally.

This is a senior, client-facing role requiring deep hands-on Ansible expertise and the ability to influence executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in infrastructure engineering and automation.
• Led at least two large configuration-management migrations to Ansible.
• Hands-on Ansible: collections, roles, execution environments, Molecule.
• Experience with AWX/Ansible Automation Platform in production.
• Knowledge of Chef and Ruby for complex conversions.
• Strong Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and Terraform experience.
• Identity, secrets vaults, SAML/OIDC integration.
• CI/CD for infrastructure code with automated testing and security scanning.
• Windows and Linux hardening with CIS benchmarks.
• Client-facing consulting experience.
• Authorized to work in the United States and onsite in Central New Jersey 2–3 days/wk.

Responsibilities

• Own target-state architecture and migration approach.
• Chair design authority and present to architecture review board.
• Lead client-facing executive briefings.
• Oversee migration factory design and AI-assisted tooling.
• Define automation operating model and release lifecycle.
• Ensure security, compliance and risk standards.
• Mentor onshore/offshore team of 15–20 engineers.
• Handover to client operations and operational readiness.
• Drive quality gates with lint, tests and security scans.
• Manage RAID risks and mitigation.

Skills

Ansible expertise

Architecture leadership

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD automation

Security & CIS

Client-facing

Ruby familiarity

AWX/Automation Platform

Tools

AWX / Ansible Automation Platform

CIQ Ascender

Terraform

Kubernetes

HashiCorp Vault / CyberArk

GitHub Actions / Jenkins

Job description

Quantum Integrators is seeking a Lead Architect to own target-state architecture for a large life sciences infrastructure automation program. You will design an enterprise Ansible platform on CIQ Ascender, supervise an AI-assisted migration factory, and move ~1,600 Chef cookbooks to Ansible while retiring Chef globally.

This is a senior, client-facing role requiring deep hands-on Ansible expertise and the ability to influence executive stakeholders.