DevOps ArchitectCloud Architect

Job Title: DevOps Architect/Cloud Architect

Location: Frisco TX

Duration: Long Term

Job Description

Role Summary

Looking for Senior DevOps expert to build standardize and own the DevOps toolchain platform from the ground up. This role is focused on installation configuration integration scaling and governance of tools like Jenkins GitHub / GitLab Argo CD Jira Confluence and Datadog.

Resource will be acting as platform owner ensuring these systems are secure scalable and fully integrated across the SDLC.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Platform Setup & Migration

• Install configure and manage Jenkins (HA setup master-agent architecture plugins security hardening)
• Expertise in driving multi region GitHub platform architecture and sync (HA/DR geo-replication latency-aware access) enterprise-wide standardization of repositories branching strategies security controls and CI/CD patterns across multiple product teams.
• Leading direct migrations from legacy CI/CD or DevOps tools (e.g. Jenkins GitLab Azure DevOps Bitbucket) to consolidate on GitHub.
• Architect and deploy highly available instances of Jenkins (HA controllers distributed agents autoscaling via Kubernetes/cloud agents).
• Establish enterprise-grade setup of GitHub / GitLab: Org structure repo naming standards branch protection rules
• Expertise on SSO/SAML integration RBAC models audit controls and Runner/agent infrastructure (self-hosted vs managed).
• Setting up Atlassian tools: Jira Confluence etc. from scratch and migrate from On-Premises. Configure the custom workflows issue types automation rules .
• Deploy and configure Argo CD for GitOps-based Kubernetes delivery
• Configure Jira & Confluence from scratch (projects workflows permissions templates).
• Experience in setting up compliance and security (org/repo standards CODEOWNERS branch protections Actions hardening secrets SSO); defining migration roadmaps.
• Enabling teams through documentation templates and onboarding.
• Design end-to-end integration between SCM CI/CD monitoring and ITSM tools.
• Plan and execute migration of DevOps tools and pipelines across platforms. Pipeline and repo migration (code history secrets integrations).
• Migration from legacy CI/CD modern pipelines (e.g. Jenkins to GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and transition from script-based deployments to GitOps via Argo CD
• Migration assessment (inventory dependencies risk analysis).
• Automate build test deployment and rollback processes.
• Develop reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries.
• Expertise all flavors of Linux administration and software installations to deploy and manage the DevOps Tools.
• Automate build test deployment and rollback processes.

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement end-to-end monitoring using Datadog (APM logs infra synthetics).
• Integrate alerts with incident management workflows.
• Define SLOs SLIs and dashboards for production systems
• Expertise on Alerting & escalation policies definition in Data Dog.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Work with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) for scalable deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM/CloudFormation)
• Provision DevOps tools using Terraform
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.

Security & Compliance

• Implement DevSecOps practices (SAST DAST secrets management)
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards
• Role-based access control (RBAC) across tools.

Required Skill Set:

Core Expertise

• 12 years in DevOps / Platform Engineering
• Expertise with Jenkins GitHub GitLab Argo CD and other DevOps Tools setup and integration with ITSM tools.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD GitOps and release strategies.

Tools & Technologies

• Monitoring: Datadog (APM logs dashboards) Grafana Cloud Watch Prometheus
• Ticketing/Docs: Jira Confluence Service Now GitHub.
• Containers: Docker Kubernetes AKS EKS Docker Orchestration
• JFrog Artifactory Azure Registry and AWS Registry.
• Ansible Automation Chef Configuration Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• IaC: Terraform (preferred) Cloud Formation templates Azure Biceps ARM templates.
• Scripting: Python / Bash / Groovy PowerShell
• Agile Methodologies DevOps Best Practices.

Education

• Bachelors/masters in computer science Engineering or related field

Experience Profile

• 12 years IT experience
• 10 years in DevOps/Cloud engineering
• Proven experience in enterprise-scale toolchain integration Design implement migration of the DevOps tool from On-Prem to Cloud Environments.

Keywords: DevOps AWS Grafana Cloud Watch Prometheus GitHub Docker AKS Kubernetes