Sr DevOps Migration -Team Lead

Sr Dev Ops Migration
-Team Lead

Location:

TX/Frisco - 75034 Onsite

Duration: 8 Weeks | Contract to hire

Pay-rate: $60.00-$63.00/Hour on W2

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Dev Ops & Migration Architect to lead enterprise-scale Dev Ops platform transformation, toolchain modernization, application lifecycle management (ALM) migrations, data migrations, and database migration initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in designing target-state architecture, driving migration strategies, establishing governance frameworks, and collaborating with Enterprise, Solution, Data, Security, Infrastructure, network, and Cloud Architects.

This role will be responsible for architecting and leading migrations across Dev Ops platforms, CI/CD ecosystems, security tooling, observability platforms, collaboration tools, and enterprise databases while ensuring scalability, security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Define and maintain enterprise Dev Ops architecture standards and roadmaps.

• Design target-state architectures for Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, Git Ops, developer experience, and platform engineering.

• Partner with Enterprise, Solution, Security, Cloud, Infrastructure, network, and Data Architects to align technology strategies.

• Lead architecture reviews, governance boards, and technical decision-making processes.

• Design cloud-native deployment models utilizing containers, Kubernetes, and managed platform services.

Dev Ops Toolchain Migration

• Architect and lead complex migrations involving:
Git Hub Enterprise, Git Lab Enterprise, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, J Frog Artifactory, Argo CD Enterprise, Run Deck, Slack, Jira, Confluence

• Develop migration frameworks, cutover plans, rollback strategies, and governance controls.

• Design repository, pipeline, artifact, and configuration migration strategies.

Tools Data Migration

• Lead platform data migration initiatives involving:
Repository migration, CI/CD pipeline migration, Work item migration, Wiki and documentation migration, Artifact and package migration, User, permission, and security model migration, Historical reporting and audit data migration

Database Migration Architecture

• Develop database migration and modernization strategies for:
PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, Enterprise relational databases

• Lead cloud migration initiatives involving:
On-premises to cloud migrations, Database consolidation, Performance optimization, High availability and disaster recovery architectures, Data validation and reconciliation

Dev Sec Ops  Architecture

• Architect and integrate security controls throughout the SDLC using:
Check marks, Black Duck SCA, Black Duck Binary Analysis (BDBA), Coverity, Invicta, Digi Cert Code Artifact Signing, Iris Risk

• Define secure development standards, vulnerability management processes, and compliance controls.

Git Ops & Platform Engineering

• Design Git Ops architectures using:
Argo CD Enterprise, Git Hub Enterprise, Git Lab Enterprise

• Define deployment governance, environment promotion strategies, and release management processes.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management best practices.

Observability & Monitoring

• Architect enterprise observability solutions leveraging:
Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Influx Data

• Lead migration initiatives from Splunk to Datadog, including dashboard, alerting, metrics, and log migration strategies.

AI & Developer Productivity

• Evaluate and integrate AI-enabled development platforms including:

§ Git Hub Copilot

§ Claude

• Establish governance, security, and operational standards for AI-assisted software development.

Experience

• 20+ years of overall IT experience.

• 10+ years designing enterprise Dev Ops, Cloud, Platform Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture solutions.

• Experience serving as Lead Architect or Enterprise Architect for large-scale transformation programs.

• Proven experience leading enterprise migrations involving thousands of repositories, CI/CD pipelines, artifacts, databases, and collaboration platforms.

• Experience defining enterprise architecture…