DevOps Architect

Role Title

DevOps Architect

Experience Range

7 to 18 years

Competency Area

AWS DevOps & Modern Engineering

Role Summary

The DevOps Architect will define CI/CD architecture, infrastructure automation standards, release engineering practices, DevSecOps patterns and AWS delivery governance.

Required Primary Skills

• CI/CD
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Docker
• ECS / EKS
• GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins

Secondary Skills

• DevSecOps
• CloudWatch / X-Ray
• Release governance
• Scripting
• Incident response

Technical Skills

• AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins
• Terraform, CloudFormation and IaC governance
• Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes and container delivery
• DevSecOps, secrets management, scanning and policy-as-code concepts

Key Responsibilities

• Design CI/CD, build, release and deployment architecture.
• Define Infrastructure as Code standards and environment strategy.
• Guide DevOps engineers on platform and container delivery.
• Embed security, quality and observability controls into pipelines.
• Establish release governance, rollback and readiness gates.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Expected Deliverables

• DevOps reference architecture
• CI/CD and IaC standards
• Pipeline design backlog
• Release governance documentation

Qualification

• B.E. / B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related discipline.
• Hands-on delivery experience aligned to the stated experience range and role scope.

Good to have

• AWS certification or active AWS certification plan.
• Experience in reusable assets, accelerators, cloud competency building, customer workshops or proposal support.