Role Overview

The DevOps Architect is responsible for designing and implementing the overall DevOps strategy and architecture within the organization. They work closely with development, infrastructure, operations, and security teams to ensure that the DevOps processes and tools are aligned with the organization's goals and objectives. Key responsibilities include designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, automating delivery processes, and providing guidance on performance and operability improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement the overall DevOps strategy and architecture within the organization.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to understand their current build and release processes and make recommendations for improvement.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, including development, operations, quality assurance, and security, to streamline processes.
• Provide guidance to development teams to improve performance and operability of the solutions they develop.
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines to improve developer productivity, agility, and code quality.
• Develop and continuously improve automation solutions to enable teams to build and deploy code efficiently and consistently.
• Build automated testing to reduce manual effort and improve product quality.
• Ensure that systems meet business and customer needs for reliability and availability.
• Monitor and manage application performance and service quality, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root causes, and issue resolution.
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to analyze and troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Prepare and present design and implementation documentation to multiple stakeholders.
• Promote DevOps principles and culture across the software engineering organization.
• Mentor and coach DevOps engineers.

Skills and Experience

• Strong collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to work well as part of a team.

• Experience developing CI/CD workflows and tools.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages: PowerShell, Python.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Experience with Configuration languages: Bicep, Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with development platforms: Azure Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong automation scripting skills.
• Experience in configuration management, test-driven development, and release management.
• Experience with Windows Server OSes and major Linux distributions.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with agile development and strong understanding of DevOps principles.
• Ability to investigate and analyze information, and to draw conclusions.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and desire to learn new languages and technologies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Experience with incident management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience.

• 4 years of relevant DevOps experience.
• 2 years of experience in software engineering or 2 years of experience in server management.

Location

This position is remote for residents of AL, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, LA, ME, MD, MN, NC, NE, NH, ND, NV, OK, OH, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI and WY.

Sentara Overview
For more than a decade, Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked Sentara Healthcare as one of the nation's top integrated healthcare systems. That's because we are dedicated to growth, innovation, and patient safety at more than 300 sites of care in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, including 12 acute care hospitals.

Sentara Benefits

As the third-largest employer in Virginia, Sentara Healthcare was named by Forbes Magazine as one of America's best large employers. We offer a variety of amenities to our employees, including, but not limited to: 

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid Annual Leave, Sick Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Retirement funds with matching contribution
• Supplemental insurance policies, including legal, Life Insurance and AD&D among others
• Work Perks program including discounted movie and theme park tickets among other great deals
• Opportunities for further advancement within our organization

Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We are setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For information about our employee benefits, please visit: Benefits - Sentara (sentaracareers.com)

Join our team! We are committed to quality healthcare, improving health every day, and providing the opportunity for training, development, and growth!

Sentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

• Bachelor's Level Degree