Principal DevOps Architect

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) – the leading destination for innovative management thinking. We reach lifelong learners to improve the practice of management in a changing world. This mission inspires each of us to unlock the leader in everyone – including you! The opportunity: Do you thrive at the crossroads of software delivery, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence? Are you passionate about increasing delivery velocity while raising the bar on reliability, security, and observability? If so, we’d like to meet you.   We are seeking a seasoned Principal DevOps Architect to advance our DevOps maturity by improving automation, observability, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle. As a key member of the Technology Operations leadership team, you will define and lead our DevOps strategy—partnering closely with engineering, cloud operations, and security to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable platforms.   What you'll do Design and implement a robust, scalable, and secure DevOps environment that enables continuous integration and deployment aligned to business objectives.   Partner with software engineering and product teams to translate delivery needs into an efficient CI/CD ecosystem—recommending, selecting, implementing, evolving, and optimizing tools and practices.   Establish and maintain DevOps architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and repeatability across teams and systems.   Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices so infrastructure is provisioned, configured, observed, and managed in a consistent and repeatable manner.   Lead cross-functional collaboration between engineering, cloud operations, and security to design and deliver secure and reliable infrastructure solutions that support the DevOps process.   Define and evolve observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing) and use telemetry (e.g., Splunk) to identify bottlenecks, improve performance, and increase delivery reliability.   Promote a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility across engineering, cloud operations, and security teams.   Mentor cloud operations engineers, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the team.   Develop and maintain clear, durable documentation for DevOps architecture, standards, and operational processes.   What you'll bring   8+ years of experience applying DevOps principles to deliver highly available, scalable cloud applications.   Proven ability to define platform/DevOps architecture strategy, establish standards, and drive adoption across multiple engineering teams. Strong hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and toolchains (e.g., Jenkins), with a focus on reliability, repeatability, and developer experience.   Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) and configuration practices that enable repeatable,…