DevOps Architect - AWS Platform

Job Title : DevOps Leader / Platform & CI/CD Lead

Experience Required :

- 10+ years of infrastructure/operations/platform experience

- 4+ years in a technical lead or platform owner role

- Proven hands-on expertise in CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitOps, AWS integration, and pipeline/platform reliability at scale

Role Summary :

The DevOps Leader / Platform & CI/CD Lead will be responsible for the architecture, design, delivery, and ongoing operation of the organizations DevOps and deployment platform.

This role owns the CI/CD strategy, release automation, and developer-facing Kubernetes deployment platform powering a NodeJS/NestJS + React application.

The position focuses on building scalable, secure, automated, and observable deployment systems. The DevOps Leader collaborates closely with a dedicated AWS Management team responsible for cloud-wide networking, VPCs, and centralized services.

This role specifies technical requirements, integrates AWS services (ECR, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch), and ensures platform reliability and developer productivity.

Core Responsibilities :

- Own end-to-end CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and operation usingGitHub Actions or equivalent.

- Build automation workflows for build, test, sign/scan, artifact publishing, and Kubernetes deployment via Helm/GitOps.

- Define and maintain the Kubernetes + GitOps platform, including Helm chartstandards, templates, deployment workflows, RBAC patterns, and namespace lifecycle management.

- Implement progressive delivery and release safetycanary, blue/green deployments, feature flags, automated rollbacks, and health checks.

- Specify, integrate, and manage required AWS services (EKS, ECR, S3, Secrets Manager/SSM, IAM, CloudWatch) used by pipelines and deployment processes.

- Design pipeline security and supply-chain controls including image scanning, SBOMs, signing, vulnerability gates, and secure secret handling in CI/CD.

- Build observability systems for deployments : pipeline metrics, rollout dashboards, tracing, and release-event alerting.

- Drive platform reliability by defining SLIs/SLOs, creating runbooks/playbooks, and leading incident response for platform issues.

- Mentor DevOps engineers, establish on-call rotations, and enable developers to achieve faster & safer releases.

Required Technical Skills :

- 10+ years infra/ops/platform experience; 4+ years as a DevOps lead, platform engineer lead, or CI/CD owner.

- Deep expertise in CI/CD using GitHub Actions, GitOps (Kustomize/Helm), and pipeline reliability patterns.

Strong Kubernetes platform knowledge (EKS preferred) :

- Helm chart development

- Namespace/tenant patterns

- RBAC

- Cluster lifecycle & operations

- Hands-on experience with canary releases, progressive delivery, feature flags, and automated rollback strategies.

Experience integrating CI/CD with AWS components :

- ECR

- S3

- Secrets Manager / SSM

- IAM roles for CI

- Logging/metrics ingestion

- Proven Terraform experience for pipeline, platform, and environment provisioning.

- Strong scripting capability in Bash, Python, or Node.js for automation logic.

- Knowledge of container/image security, SBOMs, signing, and supply-chain protection.

- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Dynatrace) and tracing (OpenTelemetry).

- Excellent communication and ability to work with AWS cloud teams, engineering managers, and product stakeholders.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have :

- Experience owning GitOps platforms or progressive delivery tools.

- Familiarity with service mesh technologies and A/B or canary automation tools.

- Integration of automated E2E tests and contract tests (Playwright, Cypress) within pipelines.

- Advanced supply-chain security (SBOM tooling, signing frameworks).

- AWS certifications or previous collaboration with central cloud governance teams.

Success Metrics First 612 Months :

- Reduced deployment lead time and increased deployment frequency across engineering teams.

- Lowered change-failure rate and improved MTTR through automated rollback workflows.

- End-to-end automated release flow (build ? test ? sign/scan ? publish ? deploy) fully documented and reliable.

- Established SLOs/SLIs and dashboards for platform health and deployment performance.

- Majority of services onboarded to the standardized CI/CD platform with templates and developer guides.

- Baseline pipeline security implemented : SBOMs, scanning, and mandatory image signing.

Logistics & Offer Guidance :

- Location : Remote

- Expectation : Hands-on contributor + strategic DevOps leader

- Compensation : Based on experience and skill depth