DevOps Architect

Veridian Tech Solutions, Inc.; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a mid-senior level DevOps Architect to lead cloud infrastructure strategies. Responsibilities include optimizing AWS services for business objectives, mentoring team members, and ensuring best practices in security and automation. If you have extensive experience in cloud technologies and a proactive approach, this is your opportunity to drive innovation in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 7 years of Information Technology experience required.
• Experience in AWS cloud and DevOps engineering preferred.
• Must have hands-on experience with container security.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure and DevOps strategies.
• Lead architecture discussions and create technical documentation.
• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Location:-Bellevue, WA or Richardson, TX

Duration:-Full-Time

Job Description

Client is seeking a DevOps Architect - This position’s primary responsibility will be to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps strategies. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and cloud security. This role requires a hand on experience in cloud technologies who can align cloud architecture with business objectives and drive innovation. The role holder should be able to research on technologies independently to recommend appropriate solutions & should contribute to technology-specific best practices & standards; contribute to success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, and scalability; contributes expertise on significant application components, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

• At least 7 years of Information Technology experience.

• Experience in AWS cloud and DevOps engineering.

• Strong expertise in AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, and API Gateway.

• Advanced experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.

• Expert knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and container security best practices.

• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and compliance frameworks.

• Strong experience in monitoring, logging, and observability with tools like Prometheus, ELK, and Datadog.

• Ability to lead architecture discussions, create technical documentation, and drive DevOps strategy.

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Define and enforce best practices for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud automation.

• Design and Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or AWS Code Pipeline.

• Lead containerization and orchestration strategies with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and serverless architectures.

• Implement security best practices, IAM policies, compliance frameworks.

• Design monitoring and observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.

• Establish cloud governance, cost optimization strategies, and FinOps best practices.

• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to drive cloud transformation.

• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation and continuous improvement

• Solid understanding of architectural patterns, design patterns and hands-on knowledge in applying these concepts to practical problems

• Certified in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Experience with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or FluxCD.

• Knowledge of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience with event-driven architectures and serverless frameworks.

• Very strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to articulate architectural details to stakeholders at different levels (executive, technical and non-technical) through UML diagrams, crisp documentation and white-boarding as required.

• Good understanding of the challenges presented by the architecture including inter-service communication, service discovery, distributed log collection, monitoring, and independent scaling of services, etc.

• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment

• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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