Principal DevOps Architect - jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal DevOps Architect based in United States.

This role offers the opportunity to define and shape the future of cloud infrastructure for a global technology platform supporting critical healthcare and research solutions. As a senior technical leader, you will architect scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud environments while driving modern DevOps practices across the organization. You will combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with strategic architectural vision, influencing teams through technical excellence and innovation. The position focuses on infrastructure automation, AI platform operations, reliability engineering, and compliance-driven cloud solutions. You will play a key role in advancing infrastructure as code, improving developer experiences, and ensuring systems remain secure, efficient, and audit-ready. This is an impactful opportunity for an experienced architect who thrives in complex environments and enjoys solving challenging technical problems.

Accountabilities:

The Principal DevOps Architect will serve as the senior technical authority responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and AI infrastructure. This hands-on individual contributor role will influence engineering standards, improve operational excellence, and enable teams to deliver reliable and secure solutions.

• Own the cloud platform architecture, infrastructure roadmap, deployment strategies, observability practices, and AI platform direction while partnering with engineering leadership.
• Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices for infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud operations, and AI tooling adoption.
• Design, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure using Terraform as the source of truth, including reusable modules, automated deployments, and policy-driven controls.
• Build and operate scalable AWS environments across development, testing, staging, and production while ensuring performance, availability, security, and compliance.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, containerized workloads, and deployment automation using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and related tools.
• Lead reliability initiatives by defining SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring strategies, and incident response processes.
• Operate and govern AI/ML platforms, including model-serving infrastructure, AI observability, security controls, cost management, and responsible AI practices.
• Implement security and compliance measures supporting healthcare data protection, audit readiness, secrets management, vulnerability management, and supply-chain security.