Chief Architect � DevOps & Observability

Bright Vision Technologies; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect - DevOps & Observability to define and govern enterprise standards for DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability across stacks. You will own reference architectures, evaluate new tools, run POVs, and lead adoption of standards from POV to implementation, working with application teams and security.

This onsite Columbus role emphasizes cloud-native engineering, automated pipelines, and proactive measurement

Qualifications

• Experience defining enterprise DevOps and security standards across complex tech stacks.
• Proven ability to lead adoption of DevSecOps, Observability, and Platform Engineering practices.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, run POVs, and create reference architectures.
• Strong collaboration with application teams, security, and operations to implement standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps Gold Standards across development and infrastructure.
• Establish standardized CI/CD, source control, IaC, security integration, and testing practices.
• Define reference architectures, reusable components, and Golden Paths for development and deployment.
• Lead POVs/POCs for new tools and technologies and translate findings into actionable roadmaps.
• Drive observability standards for metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards across platforms.

Skills

DevOps

DevSecOps

Observability

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Automation

Job description

Architect - DevOps & Observability - Onsite (Columbus, OH)

Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations.

We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title: Chief Architect - DevOps & Observability

Job Location: Columbus, OH

Onsite/Hybrid: Onsite

Job Description

Project Overview

The role of an Architect in the Delivery department focuses on designing and implementing robust solutions leveraging DevOps, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices. This position supports critical initiatives to streamline delivery processes and establish secure, efficient, and automated deployment pipelines.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect - DevOps & Observability to define, govern, and drive the adoption of enterprise-wide DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability standards across technology stacks and application environments.

This role will be responsible for establishing enterprise Gold Standards, reference architectures, technology patterns, and engineering practices for DevOps and Observability. The architect will evaluate emerging technologies and tools, conduct Proofs of Value (POVs), define technology recommendations, and lead the implementation of approved standards across applications and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate combines enterprise architecture, hands‑on technical depth, technology evaluation, DevSecOps, cloud-native engineering, observability, and transformation leadership. The individual must be capable of moving from strategy and architecture through POV, standardization, implementation, and enterprise adoption.

Core Areas of Ownership

• DevSecOps & DevOps Gold Standards
• Technology Stack Standards & Tool Evaluation
• Observability Gold Standards
• Enterprise Implementation & Adoption

Key Responsibilities

2. Technology Stack Evaluation & Proof of Value 3. Observability Gold Standards 4. Implementation of Observability Standards 5. DevSecOps Standards Implementation 6. Standards, Assets & Reusable IP

• DevOps & DevSecOps Gold Standards
• Define and own enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps Gold Standards across application development and infrastructure engineering.
• Establish standardized practices for:
• Source code management
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Security integration
• Automated testing
• Artifact management
• Containerization
• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• Release management
• Environment management
• Define reference architectures, technology patterns, reusable components, and Golden Paths for development and deployment.
• Establish standardized CI/CD pipeline architectures and reusable pipeline templates.
• Define enterprise standards for integrating security into the software delivery lifecycle.
• Establish standards for SAST, DAST, SCA, container security, IaC security, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
• Define DevSecOps standards for cloud-native, containerized, VM-based, and legacy applications.
• Ensure standards are aligned with enterprise security, architecture, compliance, and cloud strategies.
• Continuously evolve Gold Standards based on technology trends, business requirements, and lessons learned from implementations.
• Own the evaluation and technical assessment of DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability technologies.
• Identify emerging technologies and assess their applicability to the enterprise technology landscape.
• Develop evaluation frameworks and technical scorecards for comparing tools and platforms.
• Lead Proofs of Concept / Proofs of Value (POCs/POVs) for new technologies.
• Define technical requirements, use cases, success criteria, architecture, and evaluation methodology for POVs.
• Conduct hands‑on technical evaluations and demonstrate capabilities to technology leadership and customers.
• Provide architecture recommendations and Build vs. Buy vs. Partner assessments.
• Evaluate integration capabilities across existing enterprise platforms and technology ecosystems.
• Develop recommendations for technology standardization and rationalization.
• Maintain a DevOps & Observability technology reference architecture and approved technology catalog.
• Define and own enterprise Observability Gold Standards for applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Establish standards for:
• Metrics
• Logs
• Traces
• Events
• Application performance monitoring
• Infrastructure monitoring
• Digital experience monitoring
• Synthetic monitoring
• API monitoring
• Database observability
• Kubernetes observability
• Cloud observability
• Define standardized instrumentation and telemetry requirements for applications.
• Establish standards for application onboarding onto enterprise observability platforms.
• Define Golden Signals, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, and alerting standards.
• Establish enterprise standards for dashboards, alerts, event correlation, noise reduction, and incident integration.
• Define standards for observability data collection, retention, aggregation, and integration with AIOps platforms.
• Establish application observability maturity models and assessment frameworks.
• Define standardized observability patterns for different application architectures, including:
• Microservices
• APIs
• Kubernetes
• Serverless
• Cloud-native applications
• Legacy applications
• Hybrid applications
• Lead the implementation of Observability Gold Standards across enterprise applications.
• Develop reusable instrumentation patterns, dashboards, alerts, and onboarding templates.
• Create standardized onboarding frameworks for applications and infrastructure.
• Work directly with application teams to implement observability standards.
• Assess existing application observability and define gaps against the enterprise Gold Standard.
• Develop remediation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Establish automated onboarding wherever possible.
• Ensure application teams adopt standardized telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and SLO practices.
• Partner with AIOps and Operations teams to integrate observability data into incident management, event correlation, RCA, and automation workflows.
• Lead implementation of DevSecOps Gold Standards across application teams.
• Assess applications against the enterprise DevSecOps maturity model.
• Identify gaps across CI/CD, security, IaC, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Develop application-specific implementation roadmaps.
• Create reusable pipeline templates, Terraform modules, security integrations, and deployment patterns.
• Drive application onboarding to standardized DevSecOps platforms.
• Establish automated compliance and policy validation against Gold Standards.
• Develop dashboards to measure adoption, compliance, engineering performance, and business value.

Develop And Maintain a Reusable Enterprise Architecture Repository Containing

• DevSecOps Gold Standards
• Observability Gold Standards
• Reference Architectures
• Technology Standards
• Approved Technology Catalog
• Golden Paths
• CI/CD Templates
• IaC Templates
• Security Integration Patterns
• Observability Templates
• Dashboard Standards
• Alerting Standards
• Application Onboarding Frameworks
• Maturity Assessment Frameworks
• POV Evaluation Frameworks
• Implementation Runbooks
• Architecture Decision Records
• Engineering Standards and Best Practices

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