DevOps Architect
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Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The DevOps Architect is a senior-level leader tasked with designing and governing the CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring the delivery of scalable and secure cloud-native platforms. This role bridges development and operations, promoting automation and continuous improvement. The architect will define the technical blueprint and strategic roadmap for high availability and performance optimization. Key responsibilities include cloud strategy, automation, and security practices integration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the overall DevOps framework, toolchain, and infrastructure architecture for software delivery.
- Prioritize Platform Engineering principles for self-service capabilities.
- Lead the strategic adoption of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) focusing on hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
- Design for high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
- Establish standards for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
- Drive the adoption of GitOps principles for application code and infrastructure configuration.
- Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Embed security practices into the pipeline, including automated security testing.
- Architect monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions for end-to-end visibility.
Key Skills:
- Expertise in CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform).
- Understanding of DevSecOps practices and security testing.
- Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
- Ability to design high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
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Role Summary
The DevOps Architect is a senior-level leader responsible for designing, implementing, and governing the entire CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) ecosystem. This role defines the technical blueprint and strategic roadmap for highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms, bridging the gap between development and operations teams and championing the culture of automation and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
1. Architecture and Strategy
Design & Govern Platform: Define the overall DevOps framework, toolchain, and infrastructure architecture to support high-speed, reliable, and secure software delivery across multiple environments (Dev, Test, UAT, Prod).
Trend Focus: Prioritize Platform Engineering principles to create self-service capabilities for development teams.
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Cloud Strategy: Lead the strategic adoption and optimization of a specific cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), focusing on hybrid and multi-cloud strategies where necessary.
Performance & Resilience: Design for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and performance optimization for mission-critical applications, defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
2. Automation and CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Establish and enforce standards for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation/ARM Templates.
GitOps Implementation: Drive the adoption of GitOps principles, treating Git as the single source of truth for both application code and infrastructure configuration.
CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Design, build, and maintain robust, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) to automate build, test, and deployment.
3. Security and Observability
DevSecOps: Embed security practices and automated security testing ("Shift Left" Security) into every stage of the pipeline, including Static/Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST).
Observability: Architect comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger) to ensure end-to-end visibility and enable proactive AIOps/Predictive Incident Management.