Senior Platform & Reliability Architect

F-Prime Capital; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Oviva is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to partner with Engineering leadership in setting the technical direction for our infrastructure and platform. You will own critical systems, drive reliability, and lead cross-functional collaboration with Security, Compliance, and cloud providers.

You will mentor Senior/Staff engineers, manage external partnerships, and push for automated, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms that align with long-term business goals.

Qualifications

• Industry-recognised mastery in designing, building, and operating large-scale, business-critical distributed systems and the platforms that run them.
• Deep expertise across infrastructure domains: container orchestration, cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, networking, observability, and continuous delivery.
• Strong reliability-engineering background: designing for high availability, leading incident response, and driving operational maturity.
• Security-first mindset with proven experience operating in a regulated environment (information-security and/or medical-device standards) and embedding compliance into platforms.
• Continuous delivery and DevOps mindset, with a track record of automating release processes and improving development workflows and release efficiency.
• Vendor and external-partner management — evaluating, selecting, and managing cloud and infrastructure providers, including cost and performance.
• Exceptional business acumen, with the ability to translate high- and business goals into a coherent and actionable technical strategy. Building systems that also be able to adapt to future business goals by anticipating potential changes
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and influence executive, non-technical audiences.
• A proven history of visionary technical leadership with projects that had significant, long-term impact across a business.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the long-term technical strategy and architectural vision for Oviva's infrastructure and platform.
• Act as technical owner and lead architect for our most critical systems: container platform, deployment/delivery pipeline, observability, and service identity.
• Be accountable for platform reliability and operational excellence: availability, incident response and prevention, and continuous improvement of how we run production.
• Own the platform's security and regulatory-compliance posture (e.g. medical-device and information-security standards), partnering with Quality and Security teams to make compliance an automated, built-in property of the platform.
• Own key external technology relationships and vendor management: cloud providers and infrastructure vendors; including technical evaluation, negotiation input, and ongoing performance and cost management.
• Drive infrastructure cost-efficiency, ensuring spend scales sustainably with the business.
• Build self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable frameworks so teams can build, deploy, and operate independently without the platform becoming a bottleneck.
• Provide direct, expert counsel to leadership on technology threats, opportunities, and strategic infrastructure investments.
• Mentor and develop Senior & Staff engineers, growing the next generation of technical leaders.
• Identify and mitigate technical and operational risk, ensuring the long-term health, reliability, and scalability of our systems.
• Champion engineering excellence: high standards in automation, testing, documentation, and operational practices and apply AI to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
• Lead one or more engineering guilds to set, align on, and govern standards (e.g. delivery, infrastructure, security, quality gates).

Skills

Distributed systems

Container orchestration

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure-as-code

Observability

CI/CD

Reliability engineering

Security/compliance

Release automation

Vendor management

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Master's in Computer Science

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Oviva is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to partner with Engineering leadership in setting the technical direction for our infrastructure and platform. You will own critical systems, drive reliability, and lead cross-functional collaboration with Security, Compliance, and cloud providers.

You will mentor Senior/Staff engineers, manage external partnerships, and push for automated, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms that align with long-term business goals.