AWS DevOps Architect

Job Title: AWS DevOps Architect
Duration- Fulltime Permanent
Location: Lebanon NJ (Onsite from Day 1)

Job Description:
DevOps Architect
Mandate
Harness, AWS DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS EKS, Terraform
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Harness CI/CD DevOps Engineer (Migration Factory) executes wave-based, repeatable Jenkins → Harness migrations using a factory operating model: Intake → Convert → Remediate → Validate → Cutover → Stabilize, while driving standardization through golden templates, enterprise integrations (SCM/artifacts/secrets), and controlled legacy CI/CD decommissioning.

Key Responsibilities (Migration Factory Scope)

1) Migration Intake, Inventory & Segmentation
· Perform Jenkins estate discovery: inventory pipelines/jobs, Jenkins files, shared libraries, credentials usage, build agents, plugins; map dependencies and owners.
· Classify pipelines into complexity buckets (e.g., Quick Win/Simple, Standard/Medium, Complex) and build wave backlogs for migration execution.
· Run migrator assessment to produce a conversion readiness report and list of unsupported patterns (to drive remediation plan).

2) Platform Foundation for Migration
· Implement hands-on readiness required for factory execution: validate network allowlists/proxy/firewall, and ensure delegates/runners are deployed and healthy in target environments.
· Configure and validate connectors for SCM, artifact repositories/registries, cloud/K8s targets, and secret stores (Vault / secrets integration where applicable).
· Establish/maintain operational runbooks for delegate installation, access troubleshooting, and credential rotation.

3) Convert + Standardize via Golden Templates
· Use Harness Jenkins Migrator for bulk conversion and initial YAML generation where applicable.
· Refactor conversions to adopt golden templates (build/test/package/scan/deploy/notify patterns) and replace ad-hoc logic with reusable templates/modules.
· Translate Jenkins constructs into Harness equivalents

4) Remediate Gaps
· Replace unsupported Jenkins plugins / Groovy patterns with Harness-native steps or agreed scripts, and convert shared-library logic into reusable templates/modules.
· Integrate required enterprise toolchain hooks (e.g., artifact management, code quality gates, smoke tests), aligned to app team inputs.

5) Validate Shadow Mode & Parity Checks
· Execute parallel runs (Jenkins + Harness) for validation to compare outputs of acceptance testing checkpoints.
· Produce validation evidence package (shadow run results + parity checks) to support cutover readiness and audit.

6) Cutover & Stabilize (Hypercare within the factory cycle)
· Execute cutover by switching triggers/webhooks/notifications to Harness and keeping Jenkins as rollback for a defined period when required by the plan.
· Stabilize builds by monitoring failures, tuning caching, adjusting runner sizing, and addressing recurring pipeline issues; capture improvements back into templates/playbooks.
· Run wave retrospectives to update templates, playbooks, and known-issues guidance for the next wave.

7) Controlled Jenkins Decommission (Factory Exit)
· Support controlled Jenkins reduction activities as defined by the migration plan:
o Freeze new pipeline creation in Jenkins (new work lands in Harness)
o Progressive shutdown (disable tri ggers → jobs → agents; keep read-only for audit retention)
o Plugin & credential cleanup (remove unused creds, rotate secrets, lock down access)
o Archive evidence (export build history/logs as required)
o Terminate Jenkins infrastructure and reclaim resources

8) Factory Delivery Model Alignment (Pods & Interfaces)
· Work within a pod-based migration factory model that includes:
o Platform Pod: templates, delegate strategy/connectors, enterprise integration, org/account governance, policy enforcement, service catalog enablement
o Migration Pod: Jenkins inventory & dependency analysis, wave planning, pipeline migration/validation, cutover support, runbooks/handover, hyper care, and decommission support

Required Skills Harness CI/CD Execution
§ Hands-on ability to build and migrate CI/CD pipelines and enforce reuse through templates and versioning.
§ Experience deploying and operating delegates/runners, and troubleshooting connectivity/toolchain access.
§ Strong experience analyzing Jenkins pipelines (Jenkins files, shared libraries, agents, plugins, credentials) and translating them to Harness equivalents.
§ Familiarity with AI-assisted conversion using Harness Jenkins Migrator and handling unsupported patterns through remediation/refactoring.
§ Experience with parallel/shadow runs, artifact/output comparison, readiness checkpoints, and cutover + stabilization practices.
§ Expertise on Enterprise Integrations & Secrets - integrations with SCM, artifact repositories/registries, secrets management, and environment targets (e.g., Kubernetes/cloud) using connectors and least-privilege principles.
§ End-to-end design of CI pipelines (build/test) and CD pipelines (deploy/approve/release)
§ Ability to define enterprise pipeline standards with strong expertise in Harness CI + CD modules, Pipeline templates, RBAC, delegates and Policy as Code & approvals
§ Integration experience of GitHub/GitLab (SCM), Artifact repo (JFrog/Nexus), Container registry & ITSM (ServiceNow)
§ Hands-on with: EKS/Kubernetes, Helm / deployment strategies (blue-green, canary), Harness
§ Experience with: Secrets management (Vault / AWS Secrets / CyberArk), SAST / DAST / vulnerability scanning, Handle plugins, shared libraries, dependencies
§ Strong in Terraform (mandatory)
§ Ability to enable infra provisioning as part of pipeline
§ Ability to Build: Reusable pipeline templates, Automation playbooks, Self-service CI/CD frameworks
§ Ability to Optimize: Build times, Failure rates, Pipeline efficiency
§ Expertise in: "Build once, deploy everywhere” and Artifact promotion across environments
§ Ability to Debug: Pipeline failures, Deployment issues and Integration gaps.