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Federal Express Corporation · 4 hours ago

DevOps Architect Principal

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

7+ years exp

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a DevOps Architect Principal to lead and design technical solutions focusing on automation and integration of applications and infrastructure. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders to ensure project specifications are met while implementing modern quality strategies and maintaining high availability of production systems.

Package/Freight Delivery

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for supporting the vision and use of work management, resource management, and portfolio management tools and driving user adoption through the introduction of innovation and continuous improvements within the toolset

Candidates should have experience in building, connecting, and administering applications and services in complex and high-quality environments to support IT and Business operations

Candidates should have experience with cloud environments and their PaaS and IaaS offerings and using agile methodologies at the team level

This position will also be responsible for finding and implementing architectural patterns, understanding and defining the interaction of tools and services, determine and carry-out the best way for code implementation which meets business requirements, throughput, and observability patterns, determine the format of data storage and transmission

Candidates should possess an understanding of software development, software configuration management, build, deployment and release management, application lifecycle management, infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps tools and processes

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable application releases

Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices

Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and resilience of production systems

Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application deployment, observability, and runtime performance

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively detect and resolve issues

Lead incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions

Enforce security best practices across infrastructure, pipelines, and runtime environments (DevSecOps)

Evaluate and recommend tools, platforms, and architectural patterns to improve operational efficiency

Establish and document operational standards, runbooks, and best practices

Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior DevOps and platform engineers

Stay current with emerging DevOps tools, cloud services, and industry trends

Qualification

DevOpsCloud platformsCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure-as-codeRESTful APIsScripting languagesSQLNoSQLAnalytical skillsOrganizational skillsCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

Bachelor's Degree in IT or equivalent work experience

7+ Years of experience

Experience in building, connecting, and administering applications and services in complex and high-quality environments to support IT and Business operations

Experience with cloud environments and their PaaS and IaaS offerings

Experience using agile methodologies at the team level

Understanding of software development, software configuration management, build, deployment and release management, application lifecycle management, infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps tools and processes

Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with innovative outcomes which future-proof the solutions

Strong organizational, time management, interpersonal skills with ability to effectively multi-task

Comprehensive presentation, verbal, and written communication skills

Experience designing technology solutions that solve business problems

Experience in managing multiple technical projects

Advanced knowledge of DevOps within an agile / scrum environment

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) especially application services, functions/lamdas, serverless architectures

Practical and deep hands-on experience with RESTful APIs including implementation, monitoring, securing, observing, and guaranteeing throughput using different protocols and tooling

Practical knowledge of scripting in different languages, such as PowerShell, JavaScript, or Bash

Practical and hands-on knowledge of SQL and NoSQL implementations, schema development and maintenance, report generation with PowerBI or Excel

Preferred

Implementing modern quality strategies to include Test Driven Environments (TDE), automation-first approaches to regression, performance and pre-production testing, and Canary/blue-green testing

Artificial Intelligent quality practices including AI-assisted test case generation, impact analysis, anomaly detection (in both test results and production behavior)