Overview
The DevOps Architect defines, governs, and evolves the Organization’s Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) and platform engineering architecture to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient digital services.
Tasks Summary
- Define, maintain, and govern enterprise DevSecOps and platform engineering reference architectures, standards, and design patterns.
- Act as a technical authority within architecture governance forums, reviewing and validating high-risk or high-impact initiatives.
- Review and approve DevSecOps architectures for compliance with enterprise, security, and operational standards.
- Collaborate closely with Solution Architects to translate business and solution requirements into executable DevOps and platform architectures.
- Support and validate solution designs to ensure alignment with approved reference architectures and delivery standards.
- Provide expert architectural advice and hands-on support to the Squads’ DevOps engineers.
- Act as a trusted escalation point for complex, cross-cutting, or high-risk technical issues.
- Design and evolve shared platform capabilities, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, container platforms, and self-service tooling.
- Define and guide the enterprise automation strategy across CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and operations.
- Embed security, resilience, and compliance by design into DevOps and platform architectures.
- Define, maintain, and communicate architecture standards, blueprints, and patterns for DevSecOps platforms.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews, ensure governance compliance, and provide formal architectural sign-off where required.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of five years of experience in a large, complex, enterprise-scale IT environment.
- Proven experience acting as a Design Authority, Lead Architect, or Principal Architect for public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud infrastructures.
- Demonstrated expertise in at least two of the following domains: Kubernetes-based architectures, DevSecOps pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Proven experience providing architectural leadership and escalation support during major cloud or platform incidents, including troubleshooting and recovery activities.
- Experience designing and operating hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, including GitOps workflows, Zero-Trust and/or Policy-as-Code frameworks, with familiarity in Change, Configuration, and Incident Management processes.
Qualification Requirements
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification (three to four years of higher education) in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a closely related field.
- Relevant professional certifications in DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, security such as GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA), Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE), or GitLab Certified DevOps Professional.
- ITIL® Foundation or equivalent service-management certification is considered an asset.
