Position Summary
Effectual Senior DevOps Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. They partner with Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experience. Effectual DevOps Architects are “Brand Ambassadors” and are expected to demonstrate Effectual’s experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers.
A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Senior DevOps Architect
Effectual is seeking a Senior DevOps Architect to lead DevOps transformation and platform engineering initiatives for enterprise clients. As a technical expert and trusted advisor, you’ll design and implement enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, container orchestration systems, and cloud automation solutions while mentoring client teams through their DevOps adoption journey.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Design DevOps Platforms
- Architect CI/CD platforms and Kubernetes infrastructure using best practices
- Design automation frameworks, observability strategies, and security integration patterns
- Build enterprise-scale DevOps platforms with multi-tenancy and compliance requirements
Automate & Optimize
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
- Create CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts (Python, Go, Bash), and configuration management
- Optimize infrastructure for reliability, cost efficiency, security, and observability
Enable Client Success
- Provide technical guidance and DevOps mentorship to client engineering teams
- Lead DevOps transformation workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and incident response
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and pipeline challenges; create comprehensive documentation
Qualifications
- 7+ years of continual, prior experience in DevOps architecture
- 7+ years architecting and building AWS infrastructure
- 7+ years of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs and risk mitigation
- Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
- Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Proficient in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Java, Node)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Current or Expired)
Technical Skills
- Kubernetes Architecture & Security: Secure, scalable EKS platforms, RBAC, network policies, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
- DevSecOps Integration: Security scanning (SAST/DAST), compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS), policy-as-code (Open Policy Agent).
- Infrastructure as Code: Expert proficiency in Terraform and AWS CDK.
- CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Enterprise CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux).
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, and Datadog.