Experience- 10-14years
Location- Pune.
(Cloud‑Agnostic with Azure Focus)
Year of Experience: 10+ years
Role Overview
The DevOps Enterprise Solution Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and implementing large‑scale, secure, and automated DevOps ecosystems across enterprise environments. While the role emphasizes Azure‑native platforms, the architect must design cloud‑agnostic, vendor‑neutral architectures capable of operating seamlessly across Azure, AWS, GCP, on‑prem, and hybrid/multi‑cloud environments.
This role acts as a technical leader and trusted advisor, collaborating with Engineering, Cloud, Product, Security, Data, and Platform teams to enable scalable CI/CD pipelines, resilient infrastructure, and fully automated cloud platforms aligned with business, compliance, and reliability goals.
Key Responsibilities
1. Architecture & Solution Design
- Design and architect end‑to‑end DevOps and platform solutions across cloud and on‑prem ecosystems.
- Create cloud‑agnostic architecture patterns leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm charts, service mesh, containerization, and GitOps frameworks.
- Lead Azure‑first architectures (AKS, Azure DevOps, ACR, APIM, Key Vault) while ensuring portability and parity with AWS and GCP.
- Define enterprise reference architectures, reusable templates, and automation blueprints.
- Architect event‑driven and streaming platforms using Kafka and cloud‑native messaging services.
2. CI/CD & Automation
- Architect enterprise‑scale CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or cloud‑native tooling.
- Design Helm chart–based deployment strategies for Kubernetes workloads, including versioning, packaging, and lifecycle management.
- Implement secure, fully automated build, test, release, and deployment workflows.
- Integrate automated quality gates, unit/integration testing, artifact management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
3. Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- Design Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform (mandatory), Bicep, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Architect scalable, secure multi‑region Kubernetes platforms using AKS/EKS/GKE.
- Define infrastructure blueprints for:
o Networking (VNET/VPC, firewalls, private endpoints)
o Load balancers and ingress/controllers
o Service mesh (Istio / Linkerd)
o Observability and monitoring
- Architect data‑platform integrations, including EDB/PostgreSQL, cloud‑managed databases, and high‑availability data services.
4. DevOps Governance & Security
- Lead DevSecOps initiatives, integrating:
o SAST, DAST, SCA
o Container image scanning
o Secret lifecycle management
- Ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, GDPR, and enterprise security standards.
- Define enterprise governance models:
o Identity & access management (Azure AD, IAM)
o Policy‑as‑code and guardrails
o Cost governance and FinOps enablement
5. Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with engineering and product teams to enable continuous delivery and reduced release cycles.
- Act as SME and advisor to senior leadership on cloud strategy, modernization, and DevOps maturity roadmaps.
- Lead architecture reviews, design workshops, and technical assessments.
- Mentor teams on platform engineering, Helm best practices, GitOps, and cloud‑native design.
6. Observability, Monitoring & Reliability
- Architect full‑stack observability solutions using:
o Prometheus / Grafana
o Application Insights
o CloudWatch / Stackdriver
o ELK / EFK stack
- Lead SRE‑driven practices, including:
o SLIs / SLOs
o Error budgets
o Incident response
o Chaos engineering
Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical Expertise
- Strong expertise in Azure:
o AKS, Azure DevOps, ACR, Key Vault, APIM
o App Services, Event Grid, Azure Monitor
- Hands‑on experience with AWS and GCP equivalent services.
o Docker, Kubernetes
o Helm chart development and management
o Service mesh technologies
- Expert in Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux), configuration management (Ansible / Chef / Puppet).
- Strong experience with Kafka and distributed streaming platforms.
- Experience with EDB / PostgreSQL, database automation, and HA designs.
- Expertise in secure networking (VNET/VPC, private connectivity, VPN, ExpressRoute, DirectConnect).
- Strong background in CI/CD design, automated testing, release governance, and platform scalability.
Programming & Scripting
- Proficient in Python, PowerShell, Bash, YAML.
- Ability to build automation frameworks, deployment tooling, and cloud‑native utilities.
Security
-Strong experience with:
- Identity management
- Policy‑as‑code (OPA / Conftest)
- Zero‑Trust architectures
- Secrets management and rotation
Soft Skills
- Excellent stakeholder communication and cross‑functional leadership skills.
- Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
- Analytical mindset with a proven ability to drive large‑scale DevOps transformations.
