Principal Architect – SRE, DevOps & DevSecOps

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly accomplished Principal Architect – SRE, DevOps & DevSecOps to drive enterprise-wide reliability, automation, platform engineering, and cloud transformation initiatives. This leadership role will define strategic architecture, governance frameworks, and operating models that enable scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient technology platforms across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural vision and proven experience leading large-scale DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering transformations across complex enterprise environments.

Experience

• 15–20 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 6+ years in architecture, transformation, and Center of Excellence (CoE) leadership roles.
• Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and DevSecOps initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technology Strategy

• Define enterprise-wide architecture, standards, reference frameworks, and best practices for SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient platforms across cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Establish reliability engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and service resilience frameworks.
• Lead adoption of Platform Engineering principles and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
• Drive modernization initiatives aligned with business and technology objectives.

SRE, DevOps & DevSecOps Leadership

• Build, scale, and govern enterprise DevOps, SRE, and DevSecOps Centers of Excellence.
• Define operating models, governance frameworks, maturity assessments, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Standardize CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, security, release management, and operational excellence practices.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and business stakeholders.
• Develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, and reference implementations.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Architect and govern enterprise solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and related technologies.
• Enable modern container platforms using Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, and service mesh architectures.
• Drive cloud governance, platform standardization, scalability, reliability, and FinOps initiatives.
• Define platform engineering strategies that accelerate software delivery and operational excellence.

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• Architect enterprise observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and related technologies.
• Establish proactive monitoring, intelligent alerting, incident management, and reliability improvement programs.
• Lead root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Define enterprise reliability metrics and reporting frameworks.

CI/CD, Automation & DevSecOps

• Standardize enterprise CI/CD platforms using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Argo CD, and GitOps methodologies.
• Promote pipeline-as-code, automated testing, release automation, and quality engineering practices.
• Integrate security controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of automated compliance, policy-as-code, vulnerability management, and secure software development practices.

Security & Compliance

• Embed DevSecOps principles across application and infrastructure delivery processes.
• Partner with security teams to implement secrets management, vulnerability scanning, compliance automation, and governance controls.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with senior technology leaders, enterprise architects, cloud teams, security organizations, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and technology leaders across DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps domains.
• Establish communities of practice, capability-building programs, and organizational enablement initiatives.
• Influence executive leadership through measurable business outcomes, reliability metrics, and transformation roadmaps.

Required Skills & Expertise

Core Competencies

• Site Reliability Engineering (SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, Reliability Frameworks)
• DevOps Transformation & Enterprise Automation
• DevSecOps Strategy & Secure Software Delivery
• Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
• Cloud Architecture & Modern Infrastructure Design

Technical Skills

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• OpenShift
• Service Mesh Technologies

CI/CD & Automation

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Azure DevOps
• Argo CD
• GitOps

Cloud Platforms

• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

• Terraform
• Ansible
• CloudFormation
• ARM Templates

Observability & Monitoring

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Splunk
• OpenTelemetry
• Datadog

Programming & Scripting

• Python
• Shell Scripting
• Go (Preferred)

Security

• DevSecOps Toolchains
• Vulnerability Management
• Secrets Management
• Compliance Automation
• Policy-as-Code

Preferred Experience

• Experience leading enterprise-wide DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevSecOps transformations.
• Proven success establishing and scaling Centers of Excellence.
• Experience defining standards, governance models, reusable assets, and enterprise reference architectures.
• Exposure to global delivery models and multi-region technology organizations.
• Experience supporting pre-sales, solutioning, RFPs, and technology advisory engagements.

Leadership Attributes

• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Strong consulting, influencing, and decision-making capabilities.
• Thought leadership mindset with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Ability to balance governance, risk management, and developer productivity.
• Strong mentoring and organizational capability-building experience.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• SRE, DevOps, or DevSecOps-related certifications