Senior DevOps Architect & Platform Leader

Ascensus; Clifton (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering across multiple agile teams. You will partner with architects, engineers, security, and infrastructure to design scalable, secure delivery platforms, enabling faster and more reliable software releases.

This role blends strategic standards setting with hands-on leadership and mentoring, championing DevOps and DevSecOps culture to improve observability, platform reliability,

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, CI/CD, 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.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Solid understanding of microservices, cloud-native architectures, networking, security, and DR.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering across multiple Scrum teams.
• Partner with architects to align DevOps solutions with business and product strategy.
• Define and evolve standards for build, deployment, infrastructure, and environment management.
• Design reusable reference architectures, templates, and patterns for consistent adoption across teams.
• Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines and release workflows.
• Embed security and compliance controls directly into pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Drive adoption of containerized and cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Provide Level-3 support for production incidents and reliability challenges.
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and promote automation, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Skills

10+ years

Enterprise-scale

Agile/Scrum

Linux

Windows

PowerShell

Python

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

AWS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

Ascensus seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering across multiple agile teams. You will partner with architects, engineers, security, and infrastructure to design scalable, secure delivery platforms, enabling faster and more reliable software releases.

This role blends strategic standards setting with hands-on leadership and mentoring, championing DevOps and DevSecOps culture to improve observability, platform reliability,