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Bright Vision Technologies lists this Chief Architect DevOps & Observability opportunity in columbus, Ohio. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Architect - DevOps & Observability - Onsite (Columbus, OH)
Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations.
We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title: Chief Architect - DevOps & Observability
Job Location: Columbus, OH
Onsite/Hybrid: Onsite
Job Description
Project Overview
The role of an Architect in the Delivery department focuses on designing and implementing robust solutions leveraging DevOps, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices. This position supports critical initiatives to streamline delivery processes and establish secure, efficient, and automated deployment pipelines.
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect - DevOps & Observability to define, govern, and drive the adoption of enterprise-wide DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability standards across technology stacks and application environments.
This role will be responsible for establishing enterprise Gold Standards, reference architectures, technology patterns, and engineering practices for DevOps and Observability. The architect will evaluate emerging technologies and tools, conduct Proofs of Value (POVs), define technology recommendations, and lead the implementation of approved standards across applications and infrastructure.
The ideal candidate combines enterprise architecture, hands‑on technical depth, technology evaluation, DevSecOps, cloud-native engineering, observability, and transformation leadership. The individual must be capable of moving from strategy and architecture through POV, standardization, implementation, and enterprise adoption.
Core Areas of Ownership
DevSecOps & DevOps Gold Standards
Technology Stack Standards & Tool Evaluation
Observability Gold Standards
Enterprise Implementation & Adoption
Key Responsibilities
2. Technology Stack Evaluation & Proof of Value 3. Observability Gold Standards 4. Implementation of Observability Standards 5. DevSecOps Standards Implementation 6. Standards, Assets & Reusable IP
DevOps & DevSecOps Gold Standards
Define and own enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps Gold Standards across application development and infrastructure engineering.
Establish standardized practices for:
Source code management
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Security integration
Automated testing
Artifact management
Containerization
Kubernetes
GitOps
Release management
Environment management
Define reference architectures, technology patterns, reusable components, and Golden Paths for development and deployment.
Establish standardized CI/CD pipeline architectures and reusable pipeline templates.
Define enterprise standards for integrating security into the software delivery lifecycle.
Establish standards for SAST, DAST, SCA, container security, IaC security, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
Define DevSecOps standards for cloud-native, containerized, VM-based, and legacy applications.
Ensure standards are aligned with enterprise security, architecture, compliance, and cloud strategies.
Continuously evolve Gold Standards based on technology trends, business requirements, and lessons learned from implementations.
Own the evaluation and technical assessment of DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability technologies.
Identify emerging technologies and assess their applicability to the enterprise technology landscape.
Develop evaluation frameworks and technical scorecards for comparing tools and platforms.
Lead Proofs of Concept / Proofs of Value (POCs/POVs) for new technologies.
Define technical requirements, use cases, success criteria, architecture, and evaluation methodology for POVs.
Conduct hands‑on technical evaluations and demonstrate capabilities to technology leadership and customers.
Provide architecture recommendations and Build vs. Buy vs. Partner assessments.
Evaluate integration capabilities across existing enterprise platforms and technology ecosystems.
Develop recommendations for technology standardization and rationalization.
Maintain a DevOps & Observability technology reference architecture and approved technology catalog.
Define and own enterprise Observability Gold Standards for applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
Establish standards for:
Metrics
Logs
Traces
Events
Application performance monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring
Digital experience monitoring
Synthetic monitoring
API monitoring
Database observability
Kubernetes observability
Cloud observability
Define standardized instrumentation and telemetry requirements for applications.
Establish standards for application onboarding onto enterprise observability platforms.
Define Golden Signals, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, and alerting standards.
Establish enterprise standards for dashboards, alerts, event correlation, noise reduction, and incident integration.
Define standards for observability data collection, retention, aggregation, and integration with AIOps platforms.
Establish application observability maturity models and assessment frameworks.
Define standardized observability patterns for different application architectures, including:
Microservices
APIs
Kubernetes
Serverless
Cloud-native applications
Legacy applications
Hybrid applications
Lead the implementation of Observability Gold Standards across enterprise applications.
Develop reusable instrumentation patterns, dashboards, alerts, and onboarding templates.
Create standardized onboarding frameworks for applications and infrastructure.
Work directly with application teams to implement observability standards.
Assess existing application observability and define gaps against the enterprise Gold Standard.
Develop remediation roadmaps and implementation plans.
Establish automated onboarding wherever possible.
Ensure application teams adopt standardized telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and SLO practices.
Partner with AIOps and Operations teams to integrate observability data into incident management, event correlation, RCA, and automation workflows.
Lead implementation of DevSecOps Gold Standards across application teams.
Assess applications against the enterprise DevSecOps maturity model.
Identify gaps across CI/CD, security, IaC, testing, deployment, and release processes.
Develop application-specific implementation roadmaps.
Create reusable pipeline templates, Terraform modules, security integrations, and deployment patterns.
Drive application onboarding to standardized DevSecOps platforms.
Establish automated compliance and policy validation against Gold Standards.
Develop dashboards to measure adoption, compliance, engineering performance, and business value.
Develop And Maintain a Reusable Enterprise Architecture Repository Containing
DevSecOps Gold Standards
Observability Gold Standards
Reference Architectures
Technology Standards
Approved Technology Catalog
Golden Paths
CI/CD Templates
IaC Templates
Security Integration Patterns
Observability Templates
Dashboard Standards
Alerting Standards
Application Onboarding Frameworks
Maturity Assessment Frameworks
POV Evaluation Frameworks
Implementation Runbooks
Architecture Decision Records
Engineering Standards and Best Practices
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Worksite address
columbus, OH, 43224, US
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