DevOps Architect

Role Overview

The DevOps Lead is responsible for establishing, operating, and continuously improving the cloud platform, deployment pipelines, operational reliability, and engineering practices for a cloud-native digital supply chain platform on AWS supporting Oil & Gas operations.

Beyond traditional DevOps responsibilities, this role is expected to provide architectural guidance and actively contribute to the evolution and re-architecture of the platform as business, performance, scalability, security, and integration requirements evolve. The individual will serve as a key technical partner to the Technical Lead and Product Team, driving modernization initiatives, platform optimization, cloud governance, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred.
• Kubernetes and/or container platform certifications preferred.
• DevOps, CI/CD, or Infrastructure-as-Code certifications are advantageous.

Overall Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native applications in production environments.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Experience contributing to solution architecture and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience in Supply Chain, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, or other industrial sectors preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployment and platform services.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and scalable deployments.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor platform performance and proactively address operational risks and bottlenecks.
• Lead cloud environment provisioning, configuration management, and release automation.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Define and enforce operational standards, deployment controls, and cloud governance practices.
• Manage platform observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Support production deployments, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and service restoration activities.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and drive FinOps best practices to manage cloud costs.
• Work closely with Technical Leads, SAP teams, and integration teams to support platform integrations and deployments.
• Architecture & Platform Evolution Responsibilities
• Assess current platform architecture and identify opportunities for modernization and optimization.
• Recommend and lead re-architecture initiatives based on scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and business needs.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
• Define reference architectures, deployment patterns, and cloud engineering standards.
• Support migration from legacy implementation patterns to cloud-native architectures where required.
• Provide recommendations on microservices adoption, container orchestration, event-driven architectures, and platform scalability strategies.
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment with organizational standards and long-term technology roadmaps.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong AWS cloud platform expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
• Strong Kubernetes and containerization experience.
• Experience in cloud architecture, solution design, and system modernization.
• Ability to assess application architecture and recommend re-engineering or re-architecture approaches.
• Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps and security automation practices.
• Expertise in monitoring, observability, and production operations.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management capabilities.
• Experience managing highly available and mission-critical systems.
• Ability to collaborate with architects, developers, SAP teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong documentation, communication, and leadership skills.

Tools / Software

• Cloud & Architecture - AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch), AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, AWS IAM, Well-Architected Framework
• Infrastructure & Automation - Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, Packer
• Container & Orchestration - Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, OpenShift
• CI/CD & DevSecOps - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy
• Monitoring & Observability - CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Enterprise & Integration - SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, Kafka, REST APIs, EventBridge
• Collaboration - Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint