DevOps Architect
About the role
QT-SUL-09-464
DevOps Architect
Job Description
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Architect to help define the automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, platform-engineering, and operational architecture for a next-generation building-management platform.
The existing application is a monolithic platform that is tightly coupled with AWS services. The objective of the engagement is to assess the current architecture and define a scalable and portable target architecture, expected to run primarily in an on-premises/private-cloud environment.
This role will focus on DevOps and platform architecture rather than application development or application modernization. The DevOps Architect will determine how the future platform should be provisioned, deployed, configured, secured, upgraded, monitored, and operated.
The role will work closely with a US-based Cloud Architect, Kubernetes Lead in India, application teams, infrastructure teams, and customer stakeholders.
Engagement Phases
Discovery & Architecture Assessment
- Assess the current build, deployment, release, infrastructure, and operational processes.
- Identify dependencies on AWS-native DevOps and infrastructure services.
- Review CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, configuration management, monitoring, and operational processes.
- Identify architectural gaps that affect scalability, portability, repeatability, and resilience.
Reference Architecture
- Define the DevOps and platform-engineering reference architecture.
- Develop CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, observability, and release-management patterns.
- Develop representative automation and reference implementation patterns.
- Validate architectural recommendations.
A subsequent implementation/build phase is expected after completion of the reference architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the DevOps and platform-engineering architecture workstream.
- Assess the customer's existing CI/CD pipelines, automation, release management, and operational tooling.
- Identify AWS-specific tooling and services that create platform dependencies.
- Define a cloud-agnostic/on-premises DevOps architecture.
- Define CI/CD architecture for application and platform components.
- Establish infrastructure-as-code standards and reusable automation patterns.
- Define Git repository, branching, artifact-management, and environment-promotion strategies.
- Define GitOps approaches for Kubernetes platform and workload deployment.
- Define configuration-management and secrets-management architecture.
- Define container-image build, scanning, registry, promotion, and lifecycle-management patterns.
- Design automated infrastructure and Kubernetes provisioning workflows.
- Define environment-management approaches across development, test, staging, and production.
- Define automated deployment, rollback, patching, and upgrade patterns.
- Establish platform observability architecture covering:
- Metrics
- Logging
- Alerting
- Dashboards
- Distributed tracing
- Platform health monitoring
- Define DevSecOps controls and integration points for security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets, certificates, and policy enforcement.
- Define operational-readiness requirements, including backup, recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, and supportability.
- Recommend on-premises alternatives for AWS-native DevOps services where required.
- Work with the Kubernetes Lead to ensure automation patterns align with the Kubernetes target architecture.
- Work with the US Cloud Architect to integrate DevOps architecture into the overall target-state architecture.
- Produce reference architectures, technical standards, workflow diagrams, tooling recommendations, and implementation patterns.
- Support proof-of-concept or reference implementation activities.
Requirements
Required Experience
- 8+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure-automation experience.
- 4+ years in a DevOps Architect, Platform Architect, or senior platform-engineering role.
- Strong experience designing enterprise CI/CD platforms.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based deployment models.
- Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent.
- Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps technologies such as:
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Argo CD
- Flux
- Strong understanding of container registries, artifact repositories, secrets management, and software-supply-chain security.
- Experience designing DevOps architecture for on-premises, hybrid-cloud, or private-cloud environments.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, certificates, identity, and security.
- Experience with AWS DevOps and infrastructure services and the ability to map AWS-native capabilities to portable alternatives.
- Experience developing reusable automation frameworks and enterprise engineering standards.
- Strong architecture-documentation and stakeholder-communication skills.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with OpenShift, VMware, Nutanix, Rancher, or bare-metal Kubernetes environments.
- Experience migrating from AWS-native DevOps tooling to cloud-neutral or on-premises platforms.
- Experience with enterprise platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
- Experience with SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Harbor, Nexus, Artifactory, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting industrial, IoT, building-management, or edge-computing platforms.
- Relevant Kubernetes, DevOps, AWS, Red Hat, or HashiCorp certifications.
Key Skills
DevOps Architecture | Platform Engineering | Kubernetes | CI/CD | GitOps | Terraform | Infrastructure as Code | Configuration Management | AWS | On-Premises | Private Cloud | DevSecOps | Observability | Automation | Release Engineering | Reference Architecture
