As a Senior DevOps Lead/Architect, you will shape the architecture, security, and operational reliability of enterprise-scale DevOps platforms supporting complex software delivery environments. You will lead the design and evolution of CI/CD infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, ensuring development teams can deliver software efficiently, securely, and consistently. Combining hands-on technical expertise with strategic leadership, you will establish engineering standards, guide platform modernization, and oversee critical transitions with minimal disruption. You will also drive DevSecOps practices, strengthen security compliance, and ensure platform resilience through effective monitoring, incident management, and disaster recovery planning. Working closely with engineering teams, technical leadership, and customer stakeholders, you will influence technical decisions and mentor DevOps professionals. This is an opportunity to take ownership of mission-critical infrastructure in a collaborative, security-focused environment supporting demanding enterprise and government requirements.
Platform Architecture and Technical Strategy: Own the end-to-end architecture of the DevOps platform, including CI/CD pipelines, AWS EKS, artifact management, vulnerability scanning, test management, observability, and performance testing. Maintain reference architectures, system diagrams, and architecture decision records.
Technical Roadmap and Modernization: Develop and maintain a multi-year platform roadmap, identifying opportunities for modernization, consolidation, capacity improvements, and cost optimization. Evaluate total cost of ownership and migration impacts, and present actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
Platform Transition and Operational Readiness: Lead technical activities associated with transitioning platform operations from a previous provider, including knowledge transfer, configuration baselining, parallel-run validation, and readiness assessments. Ensure operational continuity throughout the transition.
CI/CD Engineering Standards: Establish and maintain standards for pipeline-as-code, shared libraries, security gates, and progressive delivery using Jenkins/CloudBees CI, Kubernetes, and GitHub. Review significant changes, upgrades, migrations, and pipeline configuration updates.
Artifact Management and Code Quality: Define repository management, access controls, retention policies, and vulnerability scanning standards for tools such as JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray. Establish quality gates and integration practices for platforms such as SonarQube.
Testing and Observability: Direct the integration of test management tools, monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana and Prometheus, and performance testing solutions such as Apache JMeter. Ensure these capabilities support reliable, measurable software delivery.
DevSecOps and Security Compliance: Maintain platform-level security controls covering secrets management, Infrastructure as Code security, software supply chain security, software bills of materials (SBOMs), dependency scanning, and Zero Trust principles.
Security Authorization and Risk Management: Support Authorization to Operate (ATO) maintenance and other security authorization activities in collaboration with security stakeholders. Coordinate continuous monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) tracking while maintaining clear security responsibilities across teams.
Reliability and Incident Management: Serve as the senior technical escalation point for critical platform incidents. Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, and root cause analysis while maintaining effective runbooks, recovery procedures, and escalation paths.
Performance and Service Metrics: Define service level indicators, service level objectives, and delivery metrics, including DORA metrics, in collaboration with technical delivery leadership. Monitor performance trends and communicate findings to customer leadership.
Technical Leadership and Mentoring: Provide architectural guidance, technical direction, design and code reviews, and mentorship to DevOps engineers. Promote consistent engineering practices and continuous improvement across the team.
Stakeholder Collaboration and Governance: Work closely with the CI/CD Team Lead/Technical Delivery Manager, Program Manager, tools administrators, service desk leadership, development teams, customer stakeholders, and external contractors. Maintain accurate architecture documentation, configuration records, operational procedures, and technical standards.
Innovation and Tool Evaluation: Research, assess, and prototype new tools and engineering practices, including AI-enabled solutions where permitted by customer governance policies. Present technical options and recommendations that align with operational, security, and business objectives.