Senior Platform Architect – DevOps & AI Enablement

Company Description

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Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Architect – DevOps & AI Enablement to design, govern, and evolve the delivery platforms that enable AI-enabled, agentic, and digital solutions to move from development to production at enterprise scale.

This role defines how solutions are built, deployed, operated, and observed, with a primary focus on DevOps architecture, platform standards, and delivery patterns. AI experience is important, not from a model-building perspective, but in understanding how AI and agent-based workloads impact deployment, observability, governance, and runtime operations.

This is an architect-level role focused on system design, standards, and oversight rather than day-to-day engineering execution.

This position will offer flexibility for hybrid work schedules to include both in-office presence and telecommute/virtual work, to be based from either Houston or Dallas, TX.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the platform and DevOps reference architecture supporting AI-enabled and digital solutions
• Establish golden paths for build, test, deploy, operate, and observe across environments
• Design and govern CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and environment promotion models
• Enable secure, repeatable delivery for AI services and agent-based workloads, including deployment, authentication, observability, and control boundaries
• Partner with Security and Enterprise Architecture to translate policy into automated delivery and runtime controls
• Ensure auditability, traceability, reliability, and observability are embedded into platform design
• Provide architectural guidance through design reviews and cross-team collaboration
• Identify delivery bottlenecks and evolve platform capabilities as AI and agentic patterns mature

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus at least 10 years of experience in DevOps, platform architecture, or large-scale distributed systems, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education. 
• Proven experience designing and governing enterprise DevOps or delivery platforms
• Strong knowledge of:
• CI/CD and deployment architectures
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform or equivalent)
• Cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• Observability, telemetry, and reliability practices
• Experience supporting AI-enabled systems in production environments
• Ability to operate at an architect level, defining standards, patterns, and reference designs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI platform delivery, AIOps, or AgentOps concepts
• Familiarity with autonomous systems governance or runtime controls
• Experience operating in large, federated enterprises
• Master’s degree preferred

Additional Information

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Sponsorship for US work authorization is not available for this position, now or in the future

About AECOM 

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