DevOps Solution Architect at Randstad Digital Americas — NeverHard

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Solution Architect to lead the design, automation, deployment, and operational excellence of our modern enterprise platforms. This role bridges software architecture, cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, and AI-enabled operational practices to build scalable, secure, and resilient delivery pipelines for mission-critical, high-availability platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in Azure cloud environments and production reliability with an AI-first mindset —actively leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, observability, and incident diagnostics throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. How You’ll Contribute Cloud & DevOps Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure architectures using Azure DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and container orchestration. 24/7 Production Reliability & Monitoring: Proactively monitor platform health to maintain 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical services. Establish operational health metrics (SLIs/SLOs), automated dashboards, and AI-enhanced observability tools. AI-First Operational Culture: Drive an AI-first engineering culture by integrating AI-assisted automation, predictive monitoring, automated troubleshooting, and diagnostics into daily operational workflows. SOP & Incident Management: Formulate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to streamline triage protocols and empower support teams during after-hours alerting scenarios. Security, PKI & Secrets Management: Oversee enterprise certificate lifecycles (SSL/TLS provisioning, renewal, automation, PKI), secrets management, and zero-trust security compliance. Developer Enablement & Pipeline Automation: Partner with software development teams to align application architectures with CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated security gates, and containerized deployment models. Prototyping & Innovation: Rapidly prototype and iterate on technical solutions, balancing innovation and speed with strict engineering discipline and operational quality. What You Bring to the Table Architectural & DevOps Baseline: 7+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or systems architecture, including 3+ years in a Solution Architect or senior technical leadership role. Mission-Critical Platform Operations: 5+ years supporting and actively monitoring production environments requiring 99.9%+ uptime. Microsoft Azure & CI/CD Expertise: 5+ years architecting enterprise solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilizing Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline automation. Containerization & IaC: 3–5+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes and Docker). AI-Assisted Operations: 3+ years leveraging AI tools and AI-first practices for code generation, infrastructure management, predictive monitoring, incident triage, and operational optimization. Certificates & Security: 3–5+ years managing enterprise PKI, SSL/TLS certificate automation, and secrets management protocols. Software Development & Scripting: 3–5+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting custom automation tools, APIs, and operational integration platforms. Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with a proven ability to bring clarity to complex, ambiguous environments. #J-18808-Ljbffr