Senior Solution Architect

ITDM Group is currently seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect who will work on digital transformation projects across both on-premise and public cloud environments. You will design and guide implementations of cloud-native applications, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platforms and multi-cloud architectures, leveraging technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, Kubernetes, and leading public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Job Overview:

As a Senior Solution Architect you:

• Will be responsible for all aspects of the solution lifecycle: estimation, design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support for our clients.

• Will help drive the technical direction of projects in collaboration with project leadership and client stakeholders.

• Will actively support presales activities including discovery, solution design, and technical proposal development.

• Learn and adopt new technologies quickly, covering container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native architectures, and hybrid cloud integration patterns.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Lead solution architecture initiatives across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts to understand functional and non-functional requirements, interacting with cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release solutions.

• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate architectures and accelerate client decisions.

• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to internal teams building innovative applications on container platforms and cloud infrastructure.

• Drive shared vision, best practices and engineering capabilities across delivery teams.

• Act as trusted technical advisor toward senior IT and business executives at client organizations.

Required qualifications:

• 4+ years of solution architecture experience; at least 2 of those years focused on cloud-ready application design and infrastructure deployment.

• Solid hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes in production environments.

• Experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or derivatives.

• Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).

• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools: Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.

• Strong creative problem-solving skills and ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills in Italian and English.

• Ability to design multi-product cloud solutions and demonstrate technical leadership on container platforms.

• Experience leading complex containerization, microservices development, and "monolithic to microservices" migration projects.

• Attitude toward knowledge transfer: helping and mentoring colleagues on DevOps, cloud, and container technologies.

Preferred experiences:

• Private and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure design from the ground up (SDDC, Nutanix, VMware, OpenStack).

• Multi-cloud architectures integrating on-premise OpenShift with AWS / Azure services.

• DevOps toolchain setup: CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins.

• Network and security policy design (Zero Trust, mTLS, NSX, OVN-Kubernetes).

• Identity and access management (Keycloak, LDAP/AD integration, OIDC/OAuth2).

• Experience working on Italian Public Administration (PA) projects or CONSIP frameworks is a plus.

Certifications (at least one required, multiple preferred):

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / CKAD

Core skills:

Hybrid Cloud · OpenShift · Kubernetes · Red Hat / Ansible · AWS / Azure / GCP · DevOps · Linux · Infrastructure as Code · Microservices · Presales

Location: Rome

The offer is to be understood in accordance with the rules on equal treatment in employment and occupation (L.903/77, L.125/91, Legislative Decree no. 215/03 and 216/03).

Interested candidates meeting the requirements are invited to apply for this position.

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