Description :

Grade: L3

Location: Nationwide (Lahore/ Islamabad/ Karachi)

Last Date to Apply: September 28th 2025

What is Solution Architect DevOps?

The DevOps Solution Architect will specialize in designing automation, CI/CD, and observability solutions that accelerate digital transformation for enterprise clients. The role requires deep technical expertise in DevOps toolchains, modern application delivery models, and security integration.

 
Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines,infrastructure as code (IaC), and container orchestration solutions across various environments (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Lead customer workshops and technical deep-dives with development and operations teams.
• Create high-level designs, PoCs, and reference architectures.
• Support Solution Managers in proposals and technical bid engagements.
• Integrate monitoring and observability into DevOps frameworks.
• Build use cases for migration of applications & workloads from other hypervisors to OpenShift
• Architect container orchestration solutions with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or cloud-native container services.
• Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.
• Integrate monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, AppDynamics).
• Ensure DevSecOps practices – embedding security in pipelines and infrastructure.
• Conduct maturity assessments and transformation roadmaps for enterprise DevOps adoption.
• Drive automation strategies for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructures. 

Required Skills & Experience 

• 7–10 years of experience in DevOps architecture or presales.

Core DevOps & CI/CD Expertise

• Proven experience in designing and managing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, or ArgoCD.
• Ability to integrate automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, security scans) into pipelines.
• Experience with blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Configuration Management
• Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack for provisioning and configuration.
• Ability to architect immutable infrastructure and self-healing systems.
• Experience designing multi-environment deployments with policy-as-code and governance baked in.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift).
• Familiarity with service mesh frameworks (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
• Hands-on with container security scanning and runtime hardening.
• Knowledge of Helm and other package managers for Kubernetes.

Cloud-Native DevOps

• Expertise in cloud DevOps services:
• AWS: CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFormation, EKS.
• Azure: DevOps Pipelines, ARM Templates, AKS.
• GCP: Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Anthos.
• Huawei Cloud: DevCloud, CCE.
• Understanding of multi-cloud/hybrid DevOps integrations.

Monitoring, Logging & Observability

• Strong experience with APM tools (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Elastic APM).
• Familiarity with monitoring stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix.
• Log management via ELK/EFK stacks, Splunk, or Datadog.
• Ability to design full observability pipelines integrating metrics, traces, and logs.

DevSecOps & Security Practices

• Experience embedding security gates in CI/CD pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning).
• Knowledge of secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault).
• Familiarity with container/image scanning tools (Anchore, Trivy, Aqua Security).
• Understanding of compliance-driven DevOps (PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO, NIST).

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Principles

• Ability to design systems aligned with SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Knowledge of chaos engineering and resilience testing.
• Proficiency in capacity planning, scaling strategies, and cost optimization.

Automation & Scripting

• Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell.
• Experience automating repetitive operational tasks and integrating with APIs.
• Familiarity with event-driven automation (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions).

Collaboration & Toolchain Integration

• Deep understanding of Agile/DevOps practices and tooling (Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow DevOps).
• Experience in integrating DevOps with ITSM, monitoring, and security ecosystems.
• Strong interpersonal skills to lead workshops, demos, and customer engagements.

Certifications (preferred but not mandatory)

• CKA/CKAD/CKS (Kubernetes).
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional / Azure DevOps Expert or equivalent.
• Security certifications relevant to DevSecOps (e.g., CCSK, CompTIA Security+).

Why Join Jazz?

As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.

As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 75+ million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.