DevOps Architect

Sr DevOps Architect

Nashville, TN

6+ Months

Job Summary

The Sr Architect, NetDevOps is responsible for designing and developing both premise and cloud network services, facilitating greater agility and enabling company growth initiatives. This role encompasses technical thought leadership, NetDevOps enablement, and providing training and coaching to execute and deliver in a NetDevOps operating model.

Key Technologies

• Azure Cloud Networking
• SaaS network enablement
• Data Center Network technologies (Juniper and Arista Spine/Leaf, Aruba, Juniper Mist, CloudGenix SDWAN)
• Public and private cloud platforms
• PaaS
• IaaS
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Shared-service applications

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to TSC’s Systems Infrastructure strategy to enable greater agility with fulfillment of Infrastructure services.
• Work with other teams to enable end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and the enablement of highly resilient Network Services for cross-functional teams.
• Design maintainable solutions to meet business and compliance requirements through code development using SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodology to ensure consistency, maintainability, and compliance.
• Identify and implement ongoing opportunities for system and process improvements.
• Maintain Network Services development standards complying with enterprise standards, ensuring solutions are optimally designed, secure, well performing and integrated with other solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technology for use across technical domains for delivering Infrastructure services.
• Develop technology transformation roadmaps and action plans to continually evolve and improve the technology estate.
• Subject Matter Expert in the discipline of Infrastructure automation and development.
• Document internal SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), processes, and training to ensure team members are successful in DevOps environment.
• Provide technical leadership and coaching of team members in DevOps transition journey.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years related work experience of increasingly technical Information Technology experience. 5+ years related work experience in NetDevOps utilizing SDLC agile methodology with various programming languages.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field preferred. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Professional Certifications preferred: CCNP, Azure 700 and 900, JNCIS DevOps, JNCIS-DC, JNCIP-DC.
• High Demand IT Specialized skills: Network automation, orchestration development, Network Cloud Expertise.

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities

Platform knowledge:

• Programming / Scripting Languages (e.g., Bash, KSH, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Perl, Python)
• Declarative Configuration Languages (Ansible, Terraform)
• Infrastructure Configuration/Automation (Ansible Tower, Terraform Enterprise, Puppet)
• Cloud services (Azure, Google Cloud)
• Container Platform services (Kubernetes)
• CI/CD Pipeline & Repository tools (Bamboo, BitBucket, GitHub, Jenkins)
• Microsoft and Linux based Operating Systems