Job Title: DevOps Architect
Location: Atlanta, GA or Grand Prairie, TX (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of overall IT experience.
- 3+ years working in a DevOps leadership role, collaborating with IT and business teams to design and implement enterprise DevOps solutions.
- 3+ years leading offshore teams in a SAFe Agile environment.
- Ability to work onsite from Atlanta, GA or Grand Prairie, TX.
- Strong communication, leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
Required Technical SkillsKubernetes (Expert)
- Kubernetes deployments
- Services
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
- Ingress
- Namespaces
- Kubectl CLI
- Kubernetes manifests
- Scaling
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Kubernetes administration
AWS EKS (Expert)
- Kubernetes Clusters
- EKS Administration
- Namespaces
- Deployments
- Services
- ScaledObjects
- Istio Service Mesh
- Cluster Operations
CI/CD (Expert)
Experience building enterprise CI/CD pipelines using:
Preferred
Nice to Have
- Atlassian Bamboo
- IBM UrbanCode Deploy
- Jenkins
Helm Charts (Expert)
- Create and maintain Helm Charts
- Package Kubernetes applications
- Helm templating
- Kubernetes release management
Docker (Expert)
- Dockerfile creation
- Container image optimization
- Image repositories
- Docker registry management
- Quay Registry (Preferred)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Develop reusable Terraform modules
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Infrastructure automation
- Cloud provisioning best practices
Cloud PlatformsAWS (Strong Knowledge)
- EC2
- S3
- IAM
- VPC
- ELB
- RDS
- Security Groups
- AWS CLI
- AWS Management Console
Preferred Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Google Cloud (Exposure)
- BigQuery
- Cloud Storage Buckets
Programming & Automation
- Bash
- Shell Scripting
- Linux scripting
- Python automation
- DevOps automation scripting
Angular / Node.js
- Build and deploy Angular applications
- Node.js CI/CD integration
Version Control & Repository Management
- Bitbucket administration
- Repository management
- Branching strategies
- Git operations
Artifact Management
- JFrog Artifactory
- Repository setup
- Package management
DevSecOps
- Checkmarx
- Wiz
- Pipeline security scanning
- CyberArk
- Service Identity Platform (SIP)
- Vault/Safe management
- Service account management
Databases
Working knowledge of:
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon DocumentDB
- MongoDB
- MongoDB Atlas
Operating Systems
Monitoring & Performance
- DataDog
- Application monitoring
- Performance testing enablement
- NFR metrics
- KEDA
- Metrics API
Test Automation
Additional Technologies (Nice to Have)
- Kafka
- Snowflake
- FileNet
- NGINX
- Apigee
- Control-M Scheduler
- SSL Certificate Management
- DNS
- Firewalls
- Networking
- Protegrity
- ServiceNow (SNOW)
- Change Management
- DR/Failover Strategies
- Blue-Green Deployments
- Enterprise Release Management
AI & Automation
- Experience with Generative AI tools.
- Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot and/or Windsurf.
- Experience building AI-enabled development or automation solutions is highly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Cloud Certification.
- Experience implementing enterprise DevSecOps solutions.
- Experience supporting underwriting or healthcare business applications.
- Experience with enterprise production support and SWAT incident engagements.
- Knowledge of Agile and SAFe methodologies.
- Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable cloud-native platforms.