Platform & DevSecOps Delivery Architect

Executive Software Guild Inc; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Executive Software Guild Inc. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer in Jersey City to lead the design and modernization of our CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tooling.

You will shape architectures across DevOps, SRE, and AI infrastructure, collaborating with software teams to improve reliability and delivery performance. The role requires hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), canary deployments, and IaC (Terraform or Pulumi).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Experience designing and standardizing enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), including container networking, pod security, and Helm lifecycle management.
• Experience with GitOps controllers (ArgoCD, Flux) and automated canary deployment strategies (Argo Rollouts, weighted ingress, or ALB traffic shifting).
• Software development experience with C# / .NET, Node.js, and Python to build internal tooling and automation.
• Hands-on experience in AI infrastructure and agentic systems, including AI model gateways and orchestration of multi-step workflows.
• Working knowledge of VM-based delivery concepts (HashiCorp Packer, EC2 Launch Templates, Cloud-Init, or rolling agent deployments).
• Experience integrating security scanning tools (Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube, AWS Inspector) into deployment workflows as quality gates.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Pulumi).

Job description

• Architecture Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with demonstrated experience designing and standardizing enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud & Containers: Deep hands-on proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), including container networking, pod security, and Helm chart lifecycle management.
• GitOps & Delivery Mechanics: Practical experience with GitOps controllers (ArgoCD, Flux) and automated canary deployment strategies (Argo Rollouts, weighted ingress, or ALB traffic shifting).
• Coding & Systems Development: Practical software development experience with C# / .NET, Node.js, and Python to build internal tooling, automate platform interfaces, and understand service-level application code.
• AI Infrastructure & Agentic Systems: Hands-on experience engineering self-hosted AI architecture, including AI model gateways, intelligent request routing, and orchestrating multi-step agentic workflows.
• Traditional Infrastructure Chops: Working knowledge of VM-based delivery concepts (HashiCorp Packer, EC2 Launch Templates, Cloud-Init, or rolling agent deployments).
• DevSecOps Integration: Experience integrating security scanning tools (Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube, AWS Inspector, or similar) directly into deployment workflows as non-negotiable quality gates.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Solid experience authoring modular, maintainable Terraform or Pulumi definitions.