Aws Architect

Job Summary:

DevOps Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable DevSecOps architecture aligned with business and technology goals.
• Design, standardize and implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and configuration management processes.
• Extensive experience in leading design and implementation of Multistage pipelines as Code in Jenkins and GitLab platforms.
• Expert in collaborating with software architects, developers, QA, security, cloud and operations teams to implement CI, CD and Continuous testing (CT).
• Experience in container-based and serverless deployments to AWS including microservices.
• Expert in creating and implementing configurable pipelines incorporating Quality gates in CI, CD and CT.
• Drive automation for build, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and developers in modern engineering practices and improving DevSecOps maturity.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis for major outages and service disruptions.
• Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for automation, and security.
• Contribute to governance, compliance, and audit readiness of the DevSecOps processes.
• Evaluate, implement, and optimize tools and platforms to support DevSecOps initiatives.
• Design and implement operationalization of infrastructure (provisioning, configuration, and patching) aligned with business and technology goals.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• This is a hands-on role that requires 12+ years of overall IT experience, with 8+ years in DevSecOps and at least 5+ years in an architecture leadership position.
• Hands-on experience with integrating tools including PyUnit, nUnit, SonarQube, Snyk, Artifactory, Maven, Selenium, RestAssured, Lamdatest, JMeter, EasyVista, Liquibase, CloudFormation, AWS Secrets Manager and containers/Kubernetes.
• Expert – Groovy & YAML; Deployments patterns – Blue Green, Canary and Dark.
• Strong experience implementing and delivering DevOps metrics including DORA.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms in AWS and Azure, virtualization, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven capability to measure, baseline DevSecOps maturity and driving improvements to maturity.
• Strong experience in security, governance, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC2, NIST, ISO).
• Continuous improvement mindset adding new capabilities to enhance DevSecOps maturity.
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Working experience in Agile/SCRUM/Kanban technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with AWS Fargate, AWS CloudWatch and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Solid and proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Puppet).
• Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Experience infusing Gen AI in DevSecOps automation
• Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of networking, security, and monitoring tools (e.g., NewRelic, OpsGenie).
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), and Puppet/Ansible.