DevOps Architect

Join Altium as a DevOps Architect and Shape the Future of Electronics Design

Are you a passionate and experienced DevOps Architect looking to make a real impact? At Altium, we’re revolutionizing how electronics are designed and built, empowering engineers worldwide with our cutting-edge digital platforms. If you’re driven by innovation and want to contribute to a company poised to become the #1 EDA industry leader, we want to hear from you!

Why Altium?

Altium isn’t just another company; we’re a transformative force in the electronics industry. Here’s why joining us is an unparalleled opportunity:

• Innovative Technology: We’ve created a unique and groundbreaking platform that’s changing the game for PCB designers, supply chains, and manufacturing.
• Global Impact: Over 30,000 companies and 100,000+ electronics engineers around the world rely on Altium solutions every day.
• Strong Growth: We’re a debt-free, financially robust company with the resources and ambition to dominate the EDA landscape.

A Day in the Life of a DevOps Architect at Altium

As our DevOps Architect, you’ll be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and evolving our infrastructure and deployment architecture to meet the demands of a global scale. You’ll blend hands-on engineering with strategic planning and technical leadership, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and secure.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and implement scalable, secure, and observable infrastructure patterns for our A365 product.
• Contributing to roadmap planning and project management, aligning technical initiatives with our strategic goals.
• Building strong relationships with development teams, streamlining the developer experience and removing technical roadblocks.
• Leading the evolution of our internal DevOps platform, shaping its architecture and capabilities to meet the growing needs of our teams.
• Evaluating, designing, and implementing cloud-native patterns using AWS, Kubernetes, and other tools for high availability, resilience, and efficient operations.
• Driving architectural decisions across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and compliance.
• Spearheading the evolution of Infrastructure as Code standards and tools, ensuring consistency and reusability.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers on design principles, automation patterns, and operational excellence.
• Championing continuous improvement in automation, system performance, security, and deployment workflows.
• Contributing to building and scaling a world-class DevOps organization through hiring and recruitment efforts.

What You’ll Bring to the Table

We’re looking for a DevOps Architect with a deep understanding of modern DevOps and infrastructure principles, and a passion for building reliable, scalable systems used by engineers around the globe. You should not only know how to build robust platforms, but also how to guide teams in consistently and securely using them.

Here are the qualifications we’re looking for:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Proven experience designing and operating production systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred, with familiarity with EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, ALB/NLB, S3, Route53, OpenSearch, or equivalent technologies).
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes internals, ecosystem tools (e.g., Helm, ArgoCD), and best practices for multi-region, production-grade clusters.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g., Github Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), including self-hosted systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write automation and tooling in Go, Python, or Bash.
• Experience leading architectural decisions for Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Comfortable with event-driven and microservices-based architectures.
• Proven experience of building developer platforms for mid-size and enterprise customers.
• Strong background in monitoring and observability (NewRelic, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Tempo, or similar APM/logging/metrics tools).
• Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
• Familiarity with security tooling and policy-as-code is a plus.
• Familiarity with other cloud providers is a plus.
• Familiarity with Data Analytics tooling and architecture is a plus (e.g. Databricks, Airflow, Kinesis/Firehose).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What Matters to Us

At Altium, we’re driven by a core set of values that guide our decisions and actions:

• Big-thinking in pursuit of purpose
• Diversity of thought
• Courage of conviction
• Transparency of intent
• Ingenuity of AND
• Agility in action
• Adaptability of approach
• Grit in pursuit of mission

Equal Opportunity Employer

Altium is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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