DevOps Architect

TechBlocks; India; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 5,600,000; Full time

Job summary

TechBlocks is seeking a DevOps Architect with 12+ years of IT experience to design and deliver enterprise-scale cloud, DevOps, and AI platforms. You will define architecture roadmaps, create technical designs, and guide implementation across AWS and Azure, focusing on security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.

The role covers platform engineering, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and SRE, including Generative AI and agentic AI solutions such as RAG

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience with emphasis on Cloud and DevOps architecture.
• Enterprise-scale cloud and DevOps platforms design and delivery experience.
• Experience producing high/low level designs, diagrams, reference architectures and tech designs.

Responsibilities

• Design architecture roadmaps and technical designs for AWS/Azure platforms.
• Guide implementation across cloud environments with focus on security, scalability, reliability, performance and cost optimization.
• Lead generative AI and agentic AI initiatives including RAG pipelines and LLMOps.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

DevOps Architecture

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Security

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We are looking for a DevOps Architect with 12+ years of IT experience to design and deliver enterprise-scale cloud, DevOps, and AI platforms. You will define architecture roadmaps, create technical designs, and guide implementation across AWS and Azure, with a focus on security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.

This hands-on role spans platform engineering, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and SRE. You will also architect Generative AI and agentic AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, and LLMOps, while working closely with engineering and business stakeholders.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in Cloud Architecture and DevOps Architecture.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and DevOps platforms.
• Strong experience producing HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, reference architectures, and technical design documentation.
• Experience conducting architecture reviews and technology evaluations.
• Strong experience with AWS and Azure Well-Architected Frameworks.
• Hands on experience in IDP tools, preferably Backstage.
• Experience defining architecture roadmaps and modernization strategies.
• Strong understanding of scalability, availability, resiliency, security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Experience with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, EKS, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, and related services.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services including AKS, Storage, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Entra ID, Azure OpenAI/AI Foundry, and related services.
• Strong Kubernetes experience with EKS and/or AKS.
• Docker, Helm, GitOps, and cloud-native microservices.

IaC & DevOps

• Strong Terraform experience.
• Experience with CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Crossplane, and/or Ansible.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD.
• Strong Python and Bash scripting/automation experience.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and GitOps principles.

DevSecOps & Security

• Strong understanding of DevSecOps.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, IAST, container vulnerability scanning, and security testing.
• Strong knowledge of cloud IAM and security.
• Experience with AWS GuardDuty, Azure Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, SCPs, PIM, MFA, SSO, and Zero Trust concepts.

Observability & SRE

• Strong experience designing enterprise observability architectures.
• Hands-on experience with multiple observability technologies such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or SCOM.
• Strong understanding of: Metrics, Logs, Traces, Distributed tracing, Monitoring, Alerting, SLI/SLO/SLA, Reliability engineering
• Experience designing observability for Kubernetes, microservices, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and distributed applications.
• Experience with SRE practices and production reliability engineering.

Generative AI & Agentic AI

• Strong experience in Generative AI / LLM architecture.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, and/or Anthropic.
• Strong knowledge of RAG, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, and contextual grounding.
• Experience with vector databases/search technologies such as Pinecone, FAISS, OpenSearch, Azure AI Search, and/or Neo4j.
• Strong experience with AI Agents, Agentic AI, multi-agent systems, and agent orchestration.
• Experience with LangGraph and/or LangChain.
• Strong understanding of MCP, tool calling, agentic workflows, AI guardrails, and AI evaluation.
• Understanding of LLMOps / AI platform engineering.

Why TechBlocks

• Work directly with Fortune 500 executives and digital transformation leaders.
• Be part of a fast-growing, AI-native software engineering firm redefining global delivery through our GCC-as-a-Service model.
• Collaborate with global teams in Canada, the U.S., and India on cutting-edge cloud and AI initiatives.
• Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and a culture that values ownership, agility, and innovation.