DevOps Architect

Job summary

Design, build, and own secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure for production platforms, including greenfield environments and migrations. Set architecture and engineering standards while implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, observability, and security controls; advise client stakeholders and mentor engineers. The role uses AWS services, Terraform or related IaC tools, Python, Bash, containers and Kubernetes, and AI coding assistants.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure, including at least 2 years in an architect or technical lead role.
• Deep hands-on AWS expertise across VPC networking, IAM, Organizations, EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, and cost optimization.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems for scale, resilience, and fault tolerance.
• Strong Python and Bash automation skills and working proficiency in Java or Node.js.
• Practical experience using AI assistants and coding agents in engineering workflows, including verifying their output.
• Experience leading client or stakeholder engagements and presenting architectures to leadership.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and containers or Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS architectures for greenfield builds and migrations.
• Lead system design for high availability, disaster recovery, multi-account strategy, network topology, and performance at scale.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation, and establish team standards.
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop production automation and tooling in Python and Bash, and contribute to Java or Node.js services as needed.
• Use AI coding assistants for infrastructure, scripting, documentation, and troubleshooting, and review their output for security, correctness, and cost.
• Lead client workshops, architecture reviews, and technical discussions; translate business requirements into technical solutions and explain trade-offs.
• Implement observability and lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Embed security and compliance controls, including least-privilege IAM, encryption, and guardrails.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team's technical standards.

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