AWS DevOps Architect

Urgent Requirement:

AWS DevOps Architect, Onsite, Plano - Texas, $75/hr on our W2, Any Visa

Job Description:

Architect Responsibilities:

• 10 Years of Industry Experience
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps engineering team.
• Define DevOps roadmap, standards, and best practices across CI/CD, automation, cloud, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to align DevOps initiatives with business goals.
• Architect, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting rapid and reliable releases.
• Drive automation across build, testing, deployment, and environment provisioning.
• Introduce tools and processes that reduce manual work and improve developer productivity.
• Own cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)—design, cost optimization, provisioning, and security.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of production systems.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and observability practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Work with SRE/Support teams to improve incident management, root-cause analysis, and uptime.
• Implement SLAs/SLOs/SLIs to measure system reliability.
• Integrate security into development and deployment pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Ensure compliance with standards like SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.
• Conduct security reviews, vulnerability assessments, and access-control audits.
• Partner with development teams to build reliable microservices and containerized architectures.
• Support QA with automated testing frameworks and test environments.
• Improve developer experience via self-service tooling and platform engineering principles

DevOps Responsibilities:

• Write well defined and tested code (IaC - Terraform) and Build pipeline (Good CICD experience) to enforce standards, frameworks, and architecture principles for the connected vehicle program. Work with the cyber security and the web security team to ensure the compliance to the technical solution being implemented.
• Perform as an individual contributor and colleague who enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and mentoring program team members on security disciplines to bolster overall security posture to lower the business risk profile.
• Solve complex problems around connected vehicle technology for mobility and telematics by troubleshoot issues and debug codebases
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.
• Adapt new technologies, tools, processes from the organization as needed
• Communicate well with team members and work collaboratively
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration.
• Problem-solving mindset with focus on stability, scalability, and speed.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• 7 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• 2 years of people management or technical leadership.
• Strong expertise with AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM).
• Strong background in Linux systems, networking, security practices.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).Interview Process: 2 rounds
• Interview 1: Video interview via MS Teams for 30 minutes (Panel interview)
• Interview 2: In-Person interview for 60 minutes (Panel interview, MUST HAVE)