Senior DevOps Architect - Cloud-Native Platform Leader

Ascensus; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide architectural leadership for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering across multiple agile teams. You will partner with architects, security, and infrastructure to design scalable, automated delivery platforms that accelerate software delivery while maintaining reliability.

This hands-on technical leader role emphasizes setting standards, mentoring engineers, and driving DevSecOps culture to improve platform reliability and developer

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build & Release, or Engineering Operations roles.
• Proven experience designing and supporting DevOps architecture in enterprise-scale production environments.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
• Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Linux and Windows environments.
• Advanced automation and scripting using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Deep expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Solid understanding of Microservices, cloud-native architectures, networking, security, HA, DR.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering across multiple scrum teams.
• Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines and release management.
• Design IaC solutions for provisioning and managing environments with security in pipelines.
• Drive adoption of containerized and cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Provide Level-3 production support and improve observability, monitoring, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and promote automation and ownership.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

CI/CD

Linux

Windows

PowerShell

Python

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

AWS

Communication

SRE

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

NGINX

Consul

Redis

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide architectural leadership for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering across multiple agile teams. You will partner with architects, security, and infrastructure to design scalable, automated delivery platforms that accelerate software delivery while maintaining reliability.

This hands-on technical leader role emphasizes setting standards, mentoring engineers, and driving DevSecOps culture to improve platform reliability and developer