DevOps Architect

Role-DevOps Architect

Location-Richardson Texas or Bellevue, WA

Type- Full Time

Required Qualifications

• At least 7 years of Information Technology experience.

• Experience in AWS cloud and DevOps engineering.

• Strong expertise in AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, VPC, Cloud Front, and API Gateway.

• Advanced experience with Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.

• Expert knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS Code Pipeline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and container security best practices.

• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and compliance frameworks.

• Strong experience in monitoring, logging, and observability with tools like Prometheus, ELK, and Datadog.

• Ability to lead architecture discussions, create technical documentation, and drive DevOps strategy.

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Define and enforce best practices for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud automation.

• Design and Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or AWS Code Pipeline.

• Lead containerization and orchestration strategies with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and serverless architectures.

• Implement security best practices, IAM policies, compliance frameworks.

• Design monitoring and observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.

• Establish cloud governance, cost optimization strategies, and FinOps best practices.

• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to drive cloud transformation.

• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation and continuous improvement

• Solid understanding of architectural patterns, design patterns and hands-on knowledge in applying these concepts to practical problems

• Certified in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Experience with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or FluxCD.

• Knowledge of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience with event-driven architectures and serverless frameworks.

• Very strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to articulate architectural details to stakeholders at different levels (executive, technical and non-technical) through UML diagrams, crisp documentation and white-boarding as required.

• Good understanding of the challenges presented by the architecture including inter-service communication, service discovery, distributed log collection, monitoring, and independent scaling of services, etc.

• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment

• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment