Sr DevOps Architect

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. Aligning business technology with an organization’s strategy and goals can often be a complex and overwhelming process without the right tools and expertise.

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)
• AWS experience within the past year, with knowledge of primary AWS services (Compute, Storage, Networking, RDS)
• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
• Experience leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
• Experience managing data center or cloud operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Proficient in one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node)
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Ability to work with multiple clients in parallel, with strong attention to detail
• Exceptional communication and time management skills
• Ability to work EST with flexibility for different time zones

Technical Skills

Kubernetes Architecture & Security

• Expert proficiency in architecting secure, scalable Kubernetes and EKS platforms with advanced security, networking, and in