Chief Architect – DevOps & Observability

Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States; onsite

Company

hirify.global is a software development company building scalable, secure, and user-friendly solutions that automate and optimize business operations.

What you will do

• Define and govern enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps Gold Standards, reference architectures, Golden Paths, CI/CD patterns, and reusable engineering assets.
• Evaluate DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and observability technologies through technical assessments and Proofs of Concept or Proofs of Value.
• Establish observability standards for applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Lead implementation of observability standards, including instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, telemetry, SLOs, and application onboarding frameworks.
• Drive adoption of standardized DevSecOps platforms, security integrations, infrastructure as code, automated compliance, testing, deployment, and release practices.
• Maintain enterprise architecture repositories, technology catalogs, maturity models, evaluation frameworks, runbooks, and architecture decision records.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud-native engineering, and observability.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD, source code management, infrastructure as code, containerization, Kubernetes, GitOps, release management, and environment management.
• Experience defining standards for SAST, DAST, SCA, container security, IaC security, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with metrics, logs, traces, events, application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, synthetic monitoring, API monitoring, and database observability.
• Ability to lead technology evaluations, define technical scorecards and success criteria, conduct hands-on POVs, and make Build vs. Buy vs. Partner recommendations.
• Ability to work onsite in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to innovative technology solutions that automate and optimize business operations.
• Career growth potential within an established organization.
• Inclusive equal employment opportunity environment.