Principal DevOps Architect

A Day in Your Life at MKS:

As a Principal Dev Ops Architect, Engineering Services at MKS, you will help shape how engineering teams across the company build, test, secure, and deliver software.

This is a high-impact technical role for someone who enjoys both the strategic and technical.

You will solve complex Dev Ops challenges at enterprise scale. You will partner directly with engineering teams, IT, and Security to architect and modernize our Dev Ops ecosystem, simplify a diverse tool landscape, create reusable engineering solutions, and establish platforms that teams can rely on. Approximately 20% of your time will be assisting with the administration of tools such as Git Hub Enterprise, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab, Jenkins You will have the opportunity to influence the future direction of Dev Ops at MKS, from CI/CD architecture and developer workflows to Dev Sec Ops , automation, reliability, and software delivery standards.

You will report to the Manager, Engineering Services.

This is a hybrid role with two days per week in the office.

You Will Make an Impact By:

Own the technical vision and architecture for MKS's enterprise Dev Ops capability, including source control, CI/CD, artifact management, release automation, Dev Sec Ops , reliability, and platform governance.

Modernize and simplify a complex Dev Ops ecosystem spanning Git Hub Enterprise, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab, Jenkins, Cloud Bees CI, Nexus, Perforce, Bitbucket, and related engineering platforms.

Architect reusable CI/CD solutions including pipeline templates, shared libraries, automated testing, quality gates, artifact promotion, and repeatable release patterns that engineering teams can adopt ve challenging platform and developer-experience problems by identifying friction, technical debt, reliability gaps, and opportunities for automation and standardization.

Partner with Security and IT to build security into engineering workflows through identity management, secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, auditability, and software supply chain controls.

Set technical direction and influence engineering practices across teams and sites, while providing enough flexibility to support different products and engineering environments.

Establish and lead the Dev Ops Center of Excellence, creating practical standards, reference architectures, documentation, training, mentoring, and a strong engineering community of practice.

Serve as a principal-level technical advisor to engineering teams, helping teams solve difficult CI/CD, platform, reliability, release, and Dev Sec Ops  challenges.

Improve the long-term reliability and supportability of engineering platforms through better automation, ownership, documentation, observability, and operational practices.

Skills You Bring:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of progressive experience in Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical discipline.
5+ years of hands-on experience architecting, building, administering, or modernizing enterprise CI/CD and Dev Ops platforms supporting multiple engineering teams, sites, or business units.

Deep understanding of CI/CD architecture, software development lifecycle practices, source control, branching and pull-request models, build and test automation, artifact management, release engineering, and platform reliability.

Hands-on experience with several of the following:
Git Hub Enterprise, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, Cloud Bees CI, Perforce, Bitbucket, Nexus Repository, Jira, and Confluence.

Experience creating reusable automation, pipelines, templates, frameworks, or platform capabilities that reduce developer friction and improve consistency ong understanding of Dev Sec Ops  and secure software delivery practices, including identity, secrets, vulnerability management, access controls, auditability, and software supply chain security.

Ability to move between architecture and hands-on technical problem solving, while influencing engineering teams and technical leaders without direct authority.

Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical decisions into practical solutions for engineers, IT, Security, vendors, and business leaders.

Travel is less than 15%.Preferred

Skills:

Experience integrating Source Code Management, CI/CD…