DevOps Solution Architect

Randstad Digital Americas; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital Americas seeks a DevOps Solution Architect to lead design, automation, deployment, and operational excellence across enterprise platforms. This role blends software architecture, cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, and AI-enabled practices to build scalable, secure, and resilient delivery pipelines for mission-critical systems.

You will leverage Azure cloud environments, production reliability, and AI-first operations to shape CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secure

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, cloud engineering, or systems architecture.
• 3+ years in a Solution Architect or senior technical leadership role.
• 5+ years supporting production environments with high uptime requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures on Azure.
• Lead automation, deployment, and SOPs for mission-critical platforms.
• Implement AI-assisted operations, observability, and predictive diagnostics.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Architecture

Production Reliability

AI-first mindset

Incident Management

Observability

SRE practices

Automation

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Solution Architect to lead the design, automation, deployment, and operational excellence of our modern enterprise platforms. This role bridges software architecture, cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, and AI-enabled operational practices to build scalable, secure, and resilient delivery pipelines for mission-critical, high-availability platforms.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in Azure cloud environments and production reliability with an AI-first mindset—actively leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, observability, and incident diagnostics throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

How You’ll Contribute

• Cloud & DevOps Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure architectures using Azure DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and container orchestration.
• 24/7 Production Reliability & Monitoring: Proactively monitor platform health to maintain 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical services. Establish operational health metrics (SLIs/SLOs), automated dashboards, and AI-enhanced observability tools.
• AI-First Operational Culture: Drive an AI-first engineering culture by integrating AI-assisted automation, predictive monitoring, automated troubleshooting, and diagnostics into daily operational workflows.
• SOP & Incident Management: Formulate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to streamline triage protocols and empower support teams during after-hours alerting scenarios.
• Security, PKI & Secrets Management: Oversee enterprise certificate lifecycles (SSL/TLS provisioning, renewal, automation, PKI), secrets management, and zero-trust security compliance.
• Developer Enablement & Pipeline Automation: Partner with software development teams to align application architectures with CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated security gates, and containerized deployment models.
• Prototyping & Innovation: Rapidly prototype and iterate on technical solutions, balancing innovation and speed with strict engineering discipline and operational quality.

What You Bring to the Table

• Architectural & DevOps Baseline: 7+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or systems architecture, including 3+ years in a Solution Architect or senior technical leadership role.
• Mission-Critical Platform Operations: 5+ years supporting and actively monitoring production environments requiring 99.9%+ uptime.
• Microsoft Azure & CI/CD Expertise: 5+ years architecting enterprise solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilizing Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Containerization & IaC: 3–5+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes and Docker).
• AI-Assisted Operations: 3+ years leveraging AI tools and AI-first practices for code generation, infrastructure management, predictive monitoring, incident triage, and operational optimization.
• Certificates & Security: 3–5+ years managing enterprise PKI, SSL/TLS certificate automation, and secrets management protocols.
• Software Development & Scripting: 3–5+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting custom automation tools, APIs, and operational integration platforms.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with a proven ability to bring clarity to complex, ambiguous environments.