At o9, we invest in people. We seek talented, driven individuals to power our transformative approach. You’ll thrive in a dynamic, supportive environment, growing while making a real impact.

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Architect to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our DevOps processes, toolchains, and cloud infrastructure. This is a senior IC role at the technical manager level — you will act as a trusted technical authority, driving architectural decisions and shaping engineering culture across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise alongside the strategic mindset to define long-term infrastructure direction, bridging development, operations, security, and product teams to deliver software reliably and at scale.

What you’ll do for us

Architecture & Design

• Lead end-to-end architecture of scalable, secure, high-performing DevOps solutions supporting enterprise-grade deployment pipelines.

• Define and own the DevOps reference architecture  establishing standards, patterns, and guardrails adopted across the organization.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend toolchain investments; design multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies.

Toolchain Development & Automation

• Develop, evaluate, select, and integrate best-in-class tools across CI/CD, IaC, container orchestration, monitoring, and security.

• Drive automation of infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and testing pipelines; champion IaC practices using Terraform, Ansible, and similar tools.

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) enabling rapid, reliable delivery across environments.

• Champion adoption of AI-powered DevOps tooling  from AI-assisted code review and intelligent test generation to AIOps-driven incident detection  continuously identifying where AI can reduce toil and accelerate delivery.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps methodologies, cloud-native patterns, and platform engineering best practices.

• Conduct architecture reviews, set a high technical bar, and collaborate with engineering managers and product leadership to align DevOps strategy with business goals.

• Contribute to hiring and technical interviewing to grow the DevOps and platform engineering function.

Monitoring, Reliability & Security

• Design comprehensive observability solutions  monitoring, distributed tracing, centralized logging, and alerting  to ensure platform health and rapid incident response.

• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; integrate DevSecOps practices and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and relevant regulatory frameworks.

• Lead vulnerability assessments and implement secrets management strategies across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

Customer & Operational Support

• Provide expert-level support for complex infrastructure and SaaS platform issues, including root cause analysis and preventive remediation.

• Participate in on-call rotations for 24/7 incident response; collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams across time zones.

What you’ll have

Experience

• 10+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles  with at least 3 years in a senior architect or technical lead capacity.

• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver enterprise-scale DevOps solutions in complex, multi-team environments, influencing decisions across cross-functional teams.

• Background supporting SaaS applications in production, including incident management, performance tuning, and continuous improvement.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field required; Masters preferred.

• Advanced certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Expert, Professional Cloud Architect).

• Certifications in Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), HashiCorp Terraform, or security frameworks (CISSP, CompTIA Security+) are a plus.

Technical Skills

• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with working knowledge of multi-cloud architectures.

• Strong proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and equivalent orchestration platforms (ECS/EKS, AKS, GKE); hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

• Solid command of CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go, or Ruby).

• Experience administering MS SQL Server and MongoDB; working knowledge of Linux and Windows administration, networking fundamentals, and observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, ELK).

AI Literacy & Forward-Thinking Innovation

• Practical understanding of AI/ML as applied to DevOps  including AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer), AIOps platforms for anomaly detection, and LLM-powered automation for incident triage and runbook generation.

• Experience evaluating and integrating AI-powered DevOps tooling (predictive scaling, intelligent test selection, automated security scanning) with clear-eyed assessment of tradeoffs in accuracy, cost, and reliability.

• Familiarity with infrastructure patterns supporting AI/ML workloads: GPU compute, model serving, vector databases, and ML pipeline orchestration (Kubeflow, MLflow, SageMaker Pipelines).

• Proactive mindset toward emerging technology  translating advancements in AI, platform engineering, and cloud-native ecosystems into actionable improvements for the team.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Exceptional communicator  able to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering peers and executive stakeholders.

• Strong mentorship instincts with a passion for growing engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence.

• Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority workstreams; comfortable in a globally distributed environment across time zones.