Senior DevOps Architect & Platform Lead

Ascensus; Newton (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership across CI/CD, cloud-native platforms, and automation. The role focuses on scalable, secure delivery pipelines and platform reliability across multiple agile teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction, guiding standards, tooling, and best practices while mentoring engineers and championing DevSecOps culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineering experience.
• Enterprise-scale DevOps architecture experience.
• Strong Agile/Scrum, CI/CD expertise.
• Linux and Windows deployment/troubleshooting.
• Automation scripting with PowerShell or Python.
• Experience with AWS.
• Excellent communication and cross-team influence.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight for DevOps and platform engineering across multiple Scrum teams.
• Lead automated CI/CD pipelines, release management, and workflow design.
• Design IaC solutions for provisioning and managing environments.
• Drive cloud-native adoption with Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response with strong SRE practices.
• Mentor engineers; promote automation, quality, and collaboration.
• Research and implement cost-effective improvements to speed up delivery.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Linux

Python / PowerShell

Automation

Security & DevSecOps

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership across CI/CD, cloud-native platforms, and automation. The role focuses on scalable, secure delivery pipelines and platform reliability across multiple agile teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction, guiding standards, tooling, and best practices while mentoring engineers and championing DevSecOps culture.