Senior DevOps Architect

Effectual

Senior DevOps Architect leading DevOps transformation initiatives for enterprise clients by designing and implementing cloud automation solutions. Collaborating with clients and mentoring teams throughout their DevOps adoption journey.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSChefCloudJavaKubernetesNode.jsPuppetPythonSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Effectual Senior DevOps Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects.
Partner with Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experience.
Lead DevOps transformation and platform engineering initiatives for enterprise clients.
Design and implement enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, container orchestration systems, and cloud automation solutions while mentoring client teams through their DevOps adoption journey.
Architect CI/CD platforms and Kubernetes infrastructure using best practices.
Design automation frameworks, observability strategies, and security integration patterns.
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision health insurances
Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurances
401k with company match
Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOps architectureAWS infrastructureCI/CD platformsKubernetesInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformCloudFormationAWS CDKconfiguration managementprogramming languages

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcommunicationtime managementstrategic thinkingattention to detailfacilitationrisk mitigationcollaborationproblem-solving