Senior Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Architect

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Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Architect, you will architect and evolve our Kubernetes platform, CI/CD ecosystem, observability stack, and cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to define standards, build reusable patterns, automate operations, and ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient delivery pipelines.

Your role includes shaping platform strategy, mentoring engineers, and ensuring our systems are resilient, observable, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Leadership

• Architect, standardize, and improve platform tooling, deployment frameworks, and operational workflows used across product engineering teams.
  
• Define and maintain

  golden paths

  , reusable templates, and guardrails ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to DevOps engineers, supporting adoption of best practices in operations and automation.
  

Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

• Own and evolve Kubernetes operations at scale: Helm chart architecture, cluster governance, namespaces/security, rollout strategies, and lifecycle management.
  
• Design and optimize AWS infrastructure, including IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, networking, and secrets management.
  
• Implement cluster-level resiliency patterns, capacity planning, cost optimization, and runtime performance tuning.
  

CI/CD Strategy & Automation

• Architect and extend GitLab CI/CD pipelines with enterprise-grade quality gates, environment strategies, and automated delivery frameworks.
  
• Establish advanced deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery) and help teams adopt continuous delivery safely and consistently.
  
• Automate build and release workflows, improve developer experience, and reduce manual operational load.
  

Observability, Monitoring & SRE Practices

• Lead architecture and operations of the observability stack (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos, OpenTelemetry).
  
• Define and refine SLOs/SLIs, alerting strategies, and dashboards to improve signal-to-noise and support high-quality incident response.
  
• Guide service instrumentation across metrics, logs, and tracing; work closely with application teams to ensure end-to-end observability.
  

Operations, Incident Response & Governance

• Provide escalation-level support during incidents; perform root cause analysis and drive platform-wide corrective actions.
  
• Establish operational standards: runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and change-management workflows.
  
• Introduce automation to reduce toil, improve platform stability, and ensure compliance with security and operational controls.
  

Continuous Improvement & Technical Stewardship

• Identify architectural gaps and lead efforts to modernize workflows, reduce complexity, and improve developer productivity.
  
• Own platform scalability, cost management, and infrastructure hygiene (resource pruning, right-sizing, lifecycle policies).
  
• Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to ensure secure, reliable, compliant platform operations.
  

Required Qualifications

• 812+ years

  in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Expert-level experience operating

  Kubernetes

  in production (Helm, Docker, Ingress NGINX, rollout strategies, cluster operations).
• Deep experience with

  GitLab CI/CD

  : creating reusable pipelines, artifacts, environments, and automated deployment patterns.
• Strong programming/scripting ability in

  Bash and Python

  (Go preferred).
• Solid AWS expertise: IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, networking, CloudWatch/CloudTrail, and secrets management.
  
• Strong observability experience:

  Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos

  , and

  OpenTelemetry

  for metrics/logs/traces.
• Demonstrated ability to lead platform engineering efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams.
  
• Comfortable working via tickets (Jira/ServiceNow) and adhering to change-management and production control processes.
  

Highly Preferred

• Terraform

  expertise for building and managing AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes platform components.
• Experience developing lightweight internal tools (API integrations, automation frameworks) in Python/Go/Java.
  
• Deep Linux and container-runtime fundamentals for debugging, performance tuning, and security hardening.
  
• Experience in regulated industries such as

  insurance or financial services

  , including familiarity with compliance and operational risk controls.

What Youll Bring

You bring a builders mindset, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to transform complex platform challenges into scalable, automated solutions. You enjoy mentoring, designing systems for long-term sustainability, and enabling product teams to move quickly without compromising reliability.