DevOps Architect

Talent Basket; Qatar; On-site; QAR 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a skilled DevOps Architect based in Qatar to define and drive the end-to-end DevOps strategy for critical applications. The role involves overseeing CI/CD pipelines, designing infrastructure-as-code practices, and ensuring operational compliance. Candidates should have 8 years of relevant experience, strong technical capabilities in tools like Azure DevOps and Kubernetes, and excellent communication skills to work with diverse teams.

Qualifications

• 8 years in DevOps engineering, with 3-4 years in a lead/architect role.
• Experience with CI/CD for mission-critical systems.
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define DevOps architecture standards for application deployment.
• Design CI/CD pipelines for various technologies.
• Collaborate with teams to modernize legacy applications.

Skills

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Linux scripting

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)

Git

Monitoring (ELK, Prometheus)

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Nexus

Artifactory

Job description

Position DevOps Architect

Budget: Open Budget

Location: Qatar Onshore

Years of Experience: 8 Years

Notice Period: 30 days

Visa: Must have Resident Permit / Qatar ID

Role Summary

The DevOps Architect is responsible for defining and driving the end-to-end DevOps strategy tooling and practices for mission-critical on-premises and hybrid applications. This role designs and oversees CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, environment strategy, and observability to ensure applications are built, tested, released and operated reliably, securely and repeatably across multiple data centres and DR sites. The DevOps Architect works closely with application infrastructure, security and operations teams to enable seamless modernization of legacy systems into containerized and microservices-based architectures while maintaining strict uptime, performance and compliance requirements.

1. MUST HAVE

1.1 Core Responsibilities

Define the overall DevOps architecture standards and practices for building, testing, releasing, and operating applications across multiple on-premises environments.

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (for example using Azure DevOps or Jenkins) for Java, .NET front-end, GIS database systems, and integration services, ensuring automated build, test, security scanning and deployment.

Lead the DevOps enablement for modernization of legacy applications into microservices and containerized workloads, ensuring coexistence with existing monolithic and legacy stacks during the transition.

Design deployment strategies (for example blue‑green, canary, rolling updates) suitable for mission‑critical 24/7 systems running in multi‑datacenter and DR setups with strict SLAs.

Define and implement infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) standards (for example Terraform, Ansible) for provisioning and managing infrastructure middleware Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters and shared services consistently and repeatably.

Collaborate closely with Application Integration, Database, Infrastructure, Security, and Network teams to ensure pipelines, deployment patterns, and operational processes align with existing on‑prem standards, DR strategies and compliance requirements.

Establish and enforce configuration management practices (for example environment‑specific configurations, secrets management, feature flags) across all environments.

Define and implement logging, monitoring and alerting standards (for example ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, APM tools) to ensure observability of applications, services and infrastructure.

Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices by integrating security checks (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines and release processes.

1.2 Technical Skills

Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins, or GitLab CI for automating build, test, and deployment workflows.

Proficiency with source control and branching strategies (for example GitFlow, trunk-based development) and integration with work item/issue tracking.

Solid experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift in on‑premises or hybrid environments.

Practical knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code tools (for example Terraform, Ansible) for provisioning and configuring compute, storage, networking and platform services.

Strong understanding of Linux‑based environments, shell scripting and automation for application and infrastructure operations.

Experience with centralized logging and monitoring stacks (for example Elastic Stack/ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana) and APM tools (for example Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic).

Good understanding of networking fundamentals relevant to DevOps (for example load balancers, ingress controllers, DNS, certificates, firewall rules, service mesh concepts).

1.3 Experience and Soft Skills

8 years of experience in DevOps build and release engineering or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3–4 years in a lead/architect role.

Proven experience implementing DevOps practices for large‑scale distributed mission‑critical systems with strict uptime and performance SLAs.

Experience working in environments with multiple data centres and DR sites, including supporting failover recovery testing and environment synchronization.

Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with architects, developers, testers, infrastructure, security and operations teams.

Ability to document DevOps architectures, pipelines, standards and operational runbooks clearly and consistently.

2. SHOULD HAVE

2.1 Responsibilities

Define environment strategy and naming conventions, and ensure consistent topology, tagging, and baseline configurations across multiple environments.

Implement automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, including unit tests, integration tests, security checks, code coverage and policy compliance checks.

Work with Security teams to align DevSecOps practices with organizational policies and compliance requirements, including auditability and evidence collection for releases.

Drive continuous improvement of build and deployment times, pipeline reliability and overall development productivity.

Contribute to and review operational runbooks, incident response procedures and DR playbooks from a DevOps and automation perspective.

2.2 Technical Skills

Experience integrating artifact repositories (for example Nexus, Artifactory, Azure Artifacts) with CI/CD pipelines to manage build outputs and dependencies.

Familiarity with service mesh or advanced traffic management concepts (for example Istio, Linkerd, API gateways) as part of blue‑green/canary deployment strategies.

Working knowledge of security tools and scanners (for example SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Snyk, Trivy, Aqua or similar) integrated with CI/CD.

Knowledge of scripting/programming languages used for automation (for example Bash, PowerShell, Python, or Groovy).

2.3 Experience

Prior involvement in modernization projects where legacy applications were incrementally migrated to microservices and containers while maintaining business continuity.

Experience coordinating releases across multiple teams and systems, including change management and release governance in regulated or high‑security environments.

3. COULD HAVE (NICE TO HAVE)

3.1 Technical Skills and Experience

Exposure to cloud platforms (for example Azure, AWS) and hybrid DevOps patterns (on‑prem plus cloud) even if current deployment is primarily on‑premises.

Experience with GitOps approaches using tools like Argo CD or Flux for Kubernetes‑based deployments.

Familiarity with SRE practices (for example error budgets, SLOs/SLIs, reliability engineering) and how they tie into monitoring and alerting design.

Experience with secrets management tools (for example HashiCorp Vault, Key Management Services) and policy‑as‑code tools (for example Open Policy Agent, Azure Policy).

Key Skills

APIs, Pegasystems, Spring, SOAP, .NET, Hybris, Solution Architecture, Service‑Oriented Architecture, Adobe Experience Manager, J2EE, Java, Oracle.

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1