Stem, Inc. · 1 day ago
Sr DevOps Architect
Broomfield, CO
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$141K/yr - $211K/yr
8+ years expStem, Inc. is a global leader reimagining technology to support the energy transition. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Architect to lead the design and evolution of their cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on unifying and standardizing environments while improving operational efficiency and security.
Energy EfficiencyEnterprise SoftwareInformation ServicesInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Drive the consolidation of environments, frameworks, and toolsets across PowerTrack, Athena, and Locus platforms
Develop and execute a roadmap for platform standardization, reducing technical debt and operational complexity
Establish unified CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, and release processes across teams
Standardize Infrastructure-as-Code practices, module libraries, and configuration management approaches
Consolidate observability tooling and establish consistent monitoring, logging, and alerting standards across all platforms
Define and enforce common security baselines, compliance controls, and operational procedures
Create reference architectures and golden paths that teams can adopt for common use cases
Lead migration efforts to move legacy or divergent systems onto standardized platforms
Document architectural decisions (ADRs) and maintain living documentation for platform standards
Lead DevOps architecture strategy across geographies, with primary focus on PowerTrack and collaboration with Athena and Locus platform teams
Define and drive architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across teams
Mentor and guide DevOps engineers; conduct architecture reviews and provide technical direction
Evaluate emerging technology trends and make recommendations to enable evolving business and operating models
Collaborate with product managers on platform lifecycle decisions including maintenance, modernization, and retirement
Facilitate evaluation and selection of software products, services, and tooling standards
Build consensus across teams and drive adoption of unified approaches
Design, deploy, automate, and manage AWS cloud-based production systems ensuring availability, performance, scalability, and security
Design durable and consistent patterns for distributed systems; recommend architecture and process improvements
Troubleshoot and solve complex problems across AWS infrastructure and application domains
Lead incident response for critical issues; conduct blameless post-mortems and drive systemic improvements
Analyze and resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues
Architect comprehensive observability solutions including metrics, centralized logging, and distributed tracing for full-stack visibility
Design alerting strategies that minimize noise, reduce alert fatigue, and enable rapid incident detection
Establish SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; drive reliability improvements based on data
Develop automated remediation workflows and self-healing infrastructure to reduce MTTR
Analyze cloud spend and architect cost-efficient solutions; drive adoption of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing, and resource lifecycle management
Build dashboards and reporting for infrastructure cost visibility
Identify cost savings opportunities through platform consolidation and elimination of redundant tooling
Ensure critical system security using industry-leading cloud security solutions
Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
Support compliance requirements including NIST, SOC 2, SOX, and FedRAMP
Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to assure quality of products and services
Collaborate across functional and technical teams to deliver projects on time per the roadmap
Qualification
Required
8+ years of overall experience, with 5+ years in enterprise environments
5+ years building and managing cloud platforms supporting large, highly available, enterprise-grade applications
5+ years working extensively with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, Redshift, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, KMS, Kinesis) with emphasis on the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Demonstrated experience leading platform consolidation, standardization, or modernization initiatives across multiple teams or business units
Proven ability to build consensus and drive adoption of unified tooling and practices in organizations with diverse or legacy systems
Demonstrated experience leading architectural decisions and driving technical strategy across teams
Strong experience implementing enterprise observability solutions including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, X-Ray)
Proven ability to design effective alerting systems, establish SLOs/SLIs, and drive reliability improvements
Track record of identifying and implementing AWS cost optimization strategies
Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Shell scripting
Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, ECS)
Solid experience in 24x7 production AWS environments including CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, etc.)
Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles, error budgets, and chaos engineering
Linux and Windows server administration
Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/Elastic Stack, CloudWatch, PagerDuty)
Understanding of network topologies and protocols (DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, SFTP, SMTP)
Experience with IT compliance and risk management frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, SOX, FedRAMP)
Excellent communication and influencing skills; ability to collaborate with client IT organizations and drive technical decisions across organizational boundaries
Preferred
AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
FinOps certification or demonstrated expertise in cloud financial management
Experience with AIOps or ML-driven anomaly detection
Experience architecting multi-region or hybrid cloud environments
Background in IoT platforms and edge computing architectures
Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
Benefits
A competitive compensation package, including eligibility for a bonus or commission based on the role, and equity
Full health benefits on the first day of employment (several medical plan options-HDHP and PPO, dental plans, FSA/HSA-with employer contribution, employer paid vision/LTD/STD/Life, variety of voluntary coverage)
401k (pre- or post-tax) on first day of employment
12 paid calendar holidays per year
Flexible time-off
Company
Stem, Inc.
At Stem, we’re reimagining technology to drive the energy transition. Turning complexity into clarity, and potential into performance.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$737.64MKey Investors
WIND VenturesActivate Capital PartnersStarwood Energy Group Global
2025-06-30Post Ipo Debt· $155M
2021-04-29Post Ipo Equity· $225M
2021-04-29IPO
Leadership Team
Arun Narayanan
Chief Executive Officer
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