DevOps Architect

Job Title: DevOps Lead Architect (Hands-On)

Location: Remote (but must reside in the metro DC area)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on DevOps Lead Architect to drive enterprise cloud infrastructure, continuous delivery, automated security, and observability across our modern application ecosystems. This role requires a proven technical leader capable of architecting scalable AWS cloud foundations using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation), administering enterprise CI/CD via CloudBees Core, managing artifact lifecycles in JFrog Artifactory, orchestrating Kubernetes workloads, and implementing full-stack monitoring using Datadog or New Relic.

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Architecture & IaC: Architect and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure multi-account AWS environments using modular Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation), enforcing drift detection and automated state management.
• Enterprise CI/CD (CloudBees Core): Design, deploy, and administer CloudBees Core (Operations Center, managed controllers, high availability, role-based access control, and Groovy-based Shared Libraries) with dynamic build agents hosted on Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes Orchestration & Security: Design, scale, and harden enterprise Kubernetes clusters (EKS or self-managed); manage Helm deployments, ingress controllers, service meshes, and enforce runtime security policies (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno).
• Artifact & Package Governance: Oversee enterprise binary management using JFrog Artifactory, configuring promotion pipelines, virtual/remote repositories, caching policies, and automated vulnerability scanning with JFrog Xray.
• Full-Stack Observability & APM: Architect enterprise monitoring, logging, and tracing using Datadog or New Relic-deploying daemonsets, APM tracing, custom metrics, SLI/SLO dashboards, and proactive alerting across AWS and Kubernetes layers.
• DevSecOps Integration: Embed shift-left security practices directly into CloudBees Core pipelines, integrating SAST, DAST, container scanning (Trivy, JFrog Xray), and centralized secrets management (HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager).
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and coach engineering teams, define infrastructure standards, establish code review guidelines, and lead architectural review boards (ARB).

Required Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 8 years in DevOps/Cloud Engineering with at least 3 years in a lead or architectural capacity leading hands-on implementations.
• Demonstrated experience running Jenkins on Kubernetes (EKS)
• Demonstrated experience running JFrog on Kubernetes (EKS)
• AWS & IaC Mastery: Deep hands-on expertise with core AWS services (IAM, VPC, EKS, RDS, S3, Route53, KMS) provisioned strictly via Terraform or CloudFormation.
• CloudBees Core Expertise: Demonstrated proficiency architecting and operating CloudBees Core, including Operations Center management, cross-controller configurations, pipeline templates, and distributed agent scaling.
• Kubernetes Production Experience: Strong hands-on background managing production Kubernetes clusters, cluster networking (CNI), storage classes (CSI), container life-cycle management, and Helm charting.
• Artifact Management: Advanced administration of JFrog Artifactory, repository life-cycle management, and supply chain security (SBOMs, signed images).
• Observability Tools: Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining Datadog or New Relic for APM, infrastructure metrics, log aggregation, and synthetic monitoring.
• Scripting & Automation: Strong coding and scripting skills in Python, Groovy (for Jenkins pipelines), Bash, or Go.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• CloudBees Certified Jenkins Engineer / CloudBees Core Administration
• Datadog Certified Professional or New Relic Certified Performance Pro