DevOps Architect

Mode of working: Hybrid (3 days per week)

Duration of assignment: 6 months

Your responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain observability platforms using Datadog and Geneos to ensure comprehensive monitoring and alerting.
• Design and manage scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Champion GitOps methodologies using GitLab for CI/CD, configuration management, and deployment automation.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with software developers across multiple geographies and cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, and deliver systems and software within agreed upon timelines.
• Optimize alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve actionable insights.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the evolution of SRE best practices.
• Oversee and continuously optimize cloud cost management strategies for our Observability infrastructure in line with Cloud FinOps principles.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with long‑term business objectives.
• Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement through blameless post‑mortems.
• Ensure code is up‑to‑date, maintainable, scalable, and secure.
• Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies in Observability, DevOps and Cloud.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience

• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS
• Strong hands‑on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Deep knowledge and hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.) for Java and Python based Microservices‑style architectures.
• Deep expertise in Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards.
• Proficiency with Geneos for real‑time monitoring and alerting.
• Solid understanding of GitLab and GitOps workflows.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to work collaboratively.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience (As applicable)

• AWS Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified DevOps Engineer or equivalent.
• Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Experience with multi‑cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Knowledge of ITIL or SRE frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience working in a regulated or high‑availability environment (e.g., fintech, financial services or capital markets).

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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