Dev Tools Architect

Architect:
Apps (Other)

Own capacity planning and infrastructure upgrades

Engage closely with architects, software engineers and other operations teams to deliver highly available and scalable services

Drive root cause analysis and risk management processes

Drive ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools and processes

Evaluate third-party products and specifications

Provide estimations of work based on requirements

Educate others (technical and non-technical) on areas of expertise

Oversee implementation team of devops engineers

Analyze, identify, and architect solutions to meet the business and IT needs for public cloud migration, including incremental automation infrastructure as appropriate to speed delivery and exploit available synergies

Document and communicate designs to enable implementation, train new developers, and support user training efforts for cloud enablement and Infrastructure as Code

Define requirements for infrastructure initiatives

Design and implement high availability standards

Assess server storage and infrastructure

Complete capacity planning and management

Design load balancing and clustering solutions according to architecture standards

Prepare architectural design documentation, including diagrams and inventories

Analyze emerging technologies and make recommendations for adaptation

Examples of skills required

Understanding of Amazon Web services ecoystem

CI/CD Pipeline

Jfrog Artifactory

REST API Management

Pipeline scanning (Sonarqube as an example)

Live scans (Rapid7 as an example)

Static Application Security Testing (Example Whitesource / MEND SAST)

Software Development Lifecycle

Platform Management:
Jira, Rally, Aha, Confluence

Automation:
Chef, etc

Docker - Trusted Registry

Open source frameworks (Cloud Foundry, etc)

ITIL Operations Mgt, Change Mgt

Agile framework Dev Ops