Technical Architect – DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure & CI​/CD

TITLE:
Technical Architect – Dev Ops, Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD

POSITION TYPE:
Full Time

LOCATION:
Frisco, TX (Onsite)

Role and Responsibilities:

Architecture & Engineering Leadership:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost‑effective multi‑cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
• Architect and own the end‑to‑end CI/CD pipeline, leveraging Jenkins, Lightspeed ensuring rapid, reliable, and automated deployments to production and marketplace environments.
• Define Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) standards using tools like Terraform, Ansible and enforce best practices across the team.
• Lead the technical design of applications for the AWS Marketplace and GCP Marketplace, ensuring they meet all platform‑specific requirements.
• Familiar with TOGAF or other architectural methodologies, experience in employing a reference architecture‑based solution development approach.
• Serve as the primary technical mentor for a team of interns and junior engineers, providing day‑to‑day guidance, code reviews, and architectural oversight.
• Develop training materials and lead workshops on cloud technologies, Dev Ops principles, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and security.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Pre‑Sales & Customer Engagement (Solution Evangelism):

• Act as a technical expert during pre‑sales, partnering with the sales team to understand customer needs and demonstrate the value of our solutions.
• Lead compelling technical presentations, product demonstrations, and proof‑of‑concepts (POCs) for potential customers.
• Create high‑quality technical content (architecture diagrams, whitepapers, blog posts) and represent World Link at industry events.

Required Experience and

Education:

• At least 3 years in an architect or lead engineer role.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Proven expertise in designing and deploying applications on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM) and GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Big Query, Cloud IAM).
• Deep, hands‑on experience building enterprise‑grade CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, or AWS Code Suite.
• Hands experience in building automated testing frameworks for unit, SIT and UAT testing within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (preferred), Ansible or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in building applications which are “secure by design” with encryption, IAM integration (SSO, MFA, RBAC), vulnerability scanning, and compliance readiness readiness (ISO
  27001, SOC2, NIST etc.).
• Experience with programming and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, React.JS, Node.JS) and a solid understanding of cloud networking and security.

Ideal Candidate Will Also Have:

• Direct experience publishing solutions on the AWS, GCP, Azure Market Place.
• Experience in Databricks Brick Builder solution build.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both engineers and business stakeholders.
• A customer‑centric mindset and experience in a pre‑sales or customer‑facing technical role.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect).