NTT DATA - DevOps Architect

About the Role : We are currently seeking a DevOps Architect to join our team in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Key Responsibilities : - Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to application teams and DevOps engineers. - Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Copado, GitLab. - Participate in technical discussions with stakeholders, translate business requirements into DevOps architecture, and communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs. - Mentor teams and promote automation, standardization, reusable solutions, and continuous improvement across the organization. - Troubleshoot complex CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, deployment, integration, and production reliability issues. - Define branching, source-control, artifact-management, release-management, and deployment strategies. - Integrate automated build, testing, security scanning, quality gates, approvals, and deployment processes into CI/CD workflows. - Evaluate existing DevOps environments, identify architectural and operational gaps, and develop modernization and automation roadmaps. - Collaborate with application development, cloud, infrastructure, security, QA, database, networking, and operations teams to define end-to-end technical solutions. - Conduct architecture and design reviews to ensure solutions comply with organizational security, reliability, scalability, and governance requirements. Required Skills Qualifications: - 8+ years of strong DevOps experience including 2+ years in an architecture or technical leadership role handling complex architectures. - Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise CI/CD architectures using Copado, GitLab. - Experience with source control and branching strategies using Git, GitHub, GitLab. - Experience designing high-availability, disaster-recovery, scalability, resiliency, and zero-downtime deployment solutions. - Strong architecture, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and problem-solving skills. - Ability to communicate architecture and technical decisions effectively to engineering teams, leadership, security teams, and business stakeholders.