Job Summary:
Effectual is a company seeking a Senior DevOps Architect to lead DevOps transformation and platform engineering initiatives for enterprise clients. The role involves designing and implementing enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, container orchestration systems, and cloud automation solutions while mentoring client teams through their DevOps adoption journey.
Responsibilities:
• Architect CI/CD platforms and Kubernetes infrastructure using best practices
• Design automation frameworks, observability strategies, and security integration patterns
• Build enterprise-scale DevOps platforms with multi-tenancy and compliance requirements
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
• Create CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts (Python, Go, Bash), and configuration management
• Optimize infrastructure for reliability, cost efficiency, security, and observability
• Provide technical guidance and DevOps mentorship to client engineering teams
• Lead DevOps transformation workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and incident response
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and pipeline challenges; create comprehensive documentation
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years of continual, prior experience in DevOps architecture
• 7+ years architecting and building AWS infrastructure
• 7+ years of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code Suite)
• AWS experience within the past year, with knowledge of primary AWS services (Compute, Storage, Networking, RDS)
• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
• Experience leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
• Experience managing data center or cloud operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Proficient in one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node)
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Ability to work with multiple clients in parallel, with strong attention to detail
• Exceptional communication and time management skills
• Ability to work EST with flexibility for different time zones
• Ability to translate technical concepts for executive audiences
• Ability to build consensus across stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and collaboration skills
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Current or Expired)
Preferred:
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Compliance framework expertise (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2)
• AWS CDK, database migration, and modernization experience
• FinOps practices and cost optimization expertise
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD) and container orchestration experience (ECS, EKS)
Company:
Cloud Service Provider, AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, Generative and Agentic AI, Migration, Modernization Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Jersey City, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.
