Cloud DevOPS & Automation Architect (339)

We’re seeking a hands-on, senior individual contributor to help build and run the Azure platform behind customer-facing, revenue-generating digital products. You’ll take standardized platform patterns (IaC, CI/CD, deployment) and turn them into real, running infrastructure that development teams can safely consume at scale. You’ll partner closely with platform architecture leaders (Platform, Network, Identity, Security, Data) who define what gets built-your role is to implement it, operationalize it, and make it repeatable., * Build and govern reusable Terraform/Bicep modules for Azure Landing Zones and resource provisioning.

• Implement platform CI/CD pipeline patterns, including state management and drift detection.
• Create and manage Azure Policy (including initiative management with EPAC) and enable self-service consumption for product/vendor teams.Implement cost guardrails (budgets/alerts) aligned to FinOps practices.

Networking & Security Implementation

• Implement hub-spoke networking across multiple Azure regions and operationalize private connectivity (Private Endpoints, DNS zones, NSG/UDR).
• Publish secure external endpoints (Azure Front Door) and implement internal/egress routing patterns (Azure Firewall).
• Integrate Sentinel alerting and implement security controls directed by Security/Network architecture.Integrate Security findings into pipeline workflows, and enforce compliance controls (ISO 27001, GDPR, regional data residency) within CI/CD.

Operations & Reliability

• Implement monitoring/alerting/dashboards (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Grafana) and external monitoring.Support incident response, runbooks, and change/release coordination for platform changes.

Continuous Improvement

• Improve delivery performance (lead time, deployment frequency) through standardization and automation.
• Help teams adopt standardized pipelines while balancing enablement with guardrails; represent CI/CD automation in architecture review forums.

• 5+ years in IT with deep hands-on experience in Azure DevOps automation and CI/CD best practices.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Bicep, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Advanced Security.
• Experience supporting customer-facing, production-grade digital products.
• Strong understanding of secure software delivery and compliance enforcement in pipelines (artifact integrity, signing, provenance).
• Comfortable operating with senior autonomy and collaborating with product engineering teams.
• Practical, regular use of AI-assisted tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot) in production workflows.
• FinOps exposure and cost-aware automation.
• Multi-region Azure experience with data residency constraints.Experience with Azure Landing Zones (CAF-aligned) / enterprise-scale reference architecture and governance forums.

Skills / Competency / Other requirements

• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to work independently with low-level supervision and in a global team distributed geographically.
• Strong organization skills (set priorities, meets deadlines, multiple simultaneous projects) and excellent documentation skills.
• Excellent analytical and diagnostic problem-solving skills with the ability of providing solutions to identified problems.
• Demonstrated experience in understanding, designing, delivering, and demonstrating compliance with information security requirements.Knowledge and experience in performing information security practices in the management and delivery of infrastructure and operations., * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.Advanced degrees or certifications are a plus but not required., The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Paid parental leave, Parental leave, Health insurance, Paid time off, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Paid sick time, Disability insurance, WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings., Expected Salary (all locations): $86,100.00 - $150,590.00

WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firms operating in over 50 countries and employs approximately 75,000 professionals, known as Visioneers. Together they pioneer solutions and deliver innovative projects in the transportation, infrastructure, environment, building, energy, water, and mining and metals sectors., WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $86,100.00 - $141,350.00

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.