Title: - Sr. DevOps Architect
Duration 12+ Mos.
# of Openings: 1
Position Type: Contract REMOTE BUT ON-SITE INTERVIEW REQUIRED
Location- Manhattan, N.Y.
Probable Interview Process 1st. Video. 2nd -- On-Site Mandatory
Local Candidates - Utilities Experience Preferred
Sr. DevOps Architect
JOB DESCRIPTION
The DevOps Architect will provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of OpNet's DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform reliability strategy.
This role will define scalable, secure, and repeatable architecture patterns that improve infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, recovery, and operational support.
The architect will establish DevOps standards and reference architectures using Azure DevOps, Git, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp Packer, Vault, Nutanix AHV, and related automation technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Define the overall DevOps and IaC architecture and technical roadmap.
Establish reusable architectural patterns for automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.
Design CI/CD architecture using Azure DevOps and Git, incorporating appropriate controls, approvals, testing, and deployment practices.
Architect secure secrets and credential-management patterns using Vault and approved enterprise solutions, keeping credentials outside source repositories.
Provide architecture guidance for Nutanix AHV, Linux, Windows, Oracle-related platforms, networking, storage, and infrastructure services.
Drive automation patterns that reduce manual effort, configuration drift, and dependency on tribal knowledge while improving repeatability and recovery readiness.
Integrate observability and operational validation into DevOps designs using Grafana, Prometheus and alerting capabilities.
Partner across infrastructure, application, security, networking, database, and operations teams to translate requirements into maintainable technical architectures.
Provide technical leadership and design guidance to DevOps/IaC engineers responsible for implementation.
Establish documentation, architecture standards, implementation patterns, and operational handoff requirements.
Ideal Experience
Strong experience with enterprise DevOps architecture, Azure DevOps, Git, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp technologies, Nutanix/virtualization, Linux and Windows infrastructure, CI/CD, secrets management, monitoring/observability, and disaster-recovery automation.
The candidate should combine hands-on technical depth with the ability to establish standards and guide engineering teams through implementation.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Must Have
ADO
Agile Change Management
Ansible
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Experience applying AI/ML to IT operations (AIOps), specifically in predictive log analysis, automated incident remediation, and automated root-cause analysis
Git Repository
Grafana
Hashicorp Packer
HashiCorp Vault
Linux Red Hat
manage Oracle database access requirements
Nutanix
PostgreSQL
Prometheus
Python Scripting
Terraform
Windows Server Configuration
