Responsibilities
- Establish and oversee enterprise-wide DevSecOps and platform engineering reference models, design standards, and architectural patterns to ensure scalability, security-by-design, and compliance with enterprise principles.
- Serve as a technical decision-maker in architecture governance, evaluating high-risk initiatives, resolving cross-team design conflicts, and enforcing adherence to approved standards and operating models.
- Evaluate and authorize DevSecOps architectures for compliance with enterprise, security, and operational requirements.
- Support the development of architectural guidelines, technology assessments, and procurement processes related to DevSecOps and platform solutions.
- Ensure all architectural designs comply with enterprise architecture, security assurance, and DevSecOps governance frameworks.
- Work closely with Solution Architects to transform business and technical requirements into implementable DevOps and platform architectures.
- Review and validate solution designs to confirm consistency with established reference models and delivery standards.
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of architectural documentation, ensuring traceability, version control, and uniformity across the DevSecOps landscape.
- Participate in managing the lifecycle of DevSecOps and platform technologies, including evaluation, roadmap planning, and tool rationalization.
- Ensure architectural consistency and traceability across multiple environments and deployment stages.
- Provide expert-level guidance and hands-on support to DevOps engineers on platform and DevSecOps-related challenges.
- Act as a primary escalation point for complex, cross-functional, or high-impact technical issues, including incident analysis and recovery for cloud and platform services.
- Support strategic decision-making by analyzing architectural trade-offs, suggesting remediation approaches, and eliminating design bottlenecks.
- Report systemic risks, capacity limitations, non-compliance issues, or structural platform deficiencies to senior engineering leadership and CTO governance bodies.
- Promote DevSecOps adoption by advising on operational models, workflow changes, organizational impact, and training requirements.
- Design and enhance shared platform capabilities such as CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and self-service tools to balance team autonomy with architectural controls.
- Define and guide enterprise-wide automation strategies across development, infrastructure, security, and operations to reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery.
- Integrate security, resilience, and compliance into DevOps and platform designs using identity management, secrets management, SAST/DAST, policy-as-code, observability, and reliability engineering.
- Help define patterns for observability, reliability, and resilience in CI/CD pipelines and platform systems.
- Set reliability targets, SLIs, and SLOs, and ensure their integration into platform architectures while balancing performance, availability, and delivery speed.
- Conduct ongoing monitoring of emerging DevOps tools and practices, recommending updates and improvements when appropriate.
- Lead or participate in technical proofs of concept and experiments for new DevSecOps and platform technologies.
- Ensure architectural alignment across engineering, enterprise architecture, security, and operations teams.
- Develop, maintain, and disseminate architecture standards, blueprints, and patterns for DevSecOps platforms.
- Conduct architectural design reviews, verify compliance with governance policies, and issue formal architectural approvals as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification (three to four years of higher education) in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a closely related discipline.
- Minimum of five years of experience in large, complex, enterprise-level IT environments.
- Proven track record serving as a Design Authority, Lead Architect, or Principal Architect for public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated expertise in at least two of the following: Kubernetes-based systems, DevSecOps pipelines, or Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Documented experience providing architectural leadership and escalation support during major cloud or platform incidents, including troubleshooting and recovery.
- Experience designing and managing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, including GitOps, Zero-Trust, or Policy-as-Code frameworks, with knowledge of change, configuration, and incident management processes.
- Fluency in English is required.
Nice to Have
- Professional certifications in DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, or security, such as GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA), Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE), or GitLab Certified DevOps Professional.
- ITIL® Foundation or equivalent service management certification is advantageous.
- Knowledge of a second official working language of the Organization (Arabic, French, or Spanish) is a plus.
Required
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification (three to four years of higher education) in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a closely related field.
- Minimum of five years of experience in a large, complex, enterprise-scale IT environment.
- Proven experience acting as a Design Authority, Lead Architect, or Principal Architect for public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud infrastructures.
- Demonstrated expertise in at least two of the following domains: Kubernetes-based architectures, DevSecOps pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Proven experience providing architectural leadership and escalation support during major cloud or platform incidents, including troubleshooting and recovery activities.
- Experience designing and operating hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, including GitOps workflows, Zero-Trust and/or Policy-as-Code frameworks, with familiarity in Change, Configuration, and Incident Management processes.
- Fluency in English.
Preferred
- Relevant professional certifications in DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, security such as GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA), Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE), or GitLab Certified DevOps Professional.
- ITIL® Foundation or equivalent service-management certification is considered an asset.
- Knowledge of a third official working language of the Organization (Arabic, French or Spanish) would be an additional asset.
Other
- Only professional experience for which candidates can provide official proof of employment will be considered. Candidates could be requested to provide copies of such official documents prior to interviews/test.
- Subsequent extension to this post will be subject to the terms of the Organization’s Staff Manual, to satisfactory performance and to availability of funds.
- Tests/interviews in connection to this selection procedure will take place approximately 2/3 weeks after the deadline for applications. Applicants are kindly requested to plan their availability during this period accordingly, in case they are short-listed.
- Selected candidates will be expected to report for duty approximately one to three months after receiving an offer of employment at the latest.
- This selection exercise may be used to generate a reserve list of suitable candidates that may be used to address Organization's similar staffing needs in the future.
