Senior DevOps Platform Architect

particle41llc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

particle41llc is seeking a senior DevOps leader who will own our DevOps strategy, technical roadmap, and platform standards across multiple client engagements. The role blends hands-on cloud engineering with leadership, mentoring engineers, advising clients, and representing the practice in pre-sales contexts.

You will influence platform reliability, security posture, and delivery velocity through scalable architectures, secure practices, and strong collaboration with product and engineering

Qualifications

• Eight+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering; minimum two years in leadership.
• Hands-on with two or more cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and working knowledge of the third.
• Deep Terraform experience; familiarity with configuration management such as Ansible.
• Scripting/automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong cloud security, IAM, networking, and compliance focus.
• Proven mentoring, communication, and client-facing advisory skills in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and evangelize a golden path of reference architectures and reusable infrastructure modules.
• Design and operate cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Architect and run container platforms (EKS/AKS/GKE) and own CI/CD and GitOps strategy.
• Establish observability stack and define SLIs/SLOs; own incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Embed security into delivery with secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Mentor engineers, review code, interview candidates, and drive continuous improvement using DORA metrics.

Skills

DevOps leadership

SRE / Platform engineering

Multi-cloud design (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Terraform

Ansible

Python / Bash / Go scripting

Security & compliance

Mentoring & client-facing advisory

CI/CD / GitOps

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Pulumi

Job description

particle41llc is seeking a senior DevOps leader who will own our DevOps strategy, technical roadmap, and platform standards across multiple client engagements. The role blends hands-on cloud engineering with leadership, mentoring engineers, advising clients, and representing the practice in pre-sales contexts.

You will influence platform reliability, security posture, and delivery velocity through scalable architectures, secure practices, and strong collaboration with product and engineering