Lead Solutions Architect
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting · United States · $155k–$190k
The role
This is a senior, client-facing DevOps Architect role focused on designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, primarily using Azure and Terraform. The role involves working directly with client delivery teams, mentoring engineers, and helping establish reusable DevOps patterns. The position is remote and billable, with a base salary range of $155,000 to $190,000.
- Pay
- $155k–$190k
- Location
- United States
- Work mode
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 7+ yrs
What we know that the posting doesn’t say
- Seen 2 days agostill listed on the employer’s careers page
- Posted 7 days agothe first time we saw it
About Alpha Financial Markets Consulting
Alpha FMC is a global consultancy to the financial services industry, providing strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise. Founded in 2003, it has partnered with over 1,200 clients and was acquired by Bridgepoint in 2024.
What you would do
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for clients using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Write and maintain Terraform modules for Azure and AWS infrastructure
- Manage infrastructure as code across multiple client environments
- Automate build, test, and deployment workflows to reduce manual steps
- Implement infrastructure security practices including secrets management and IAM
- Monitor pipeline health and troubleshoot build, deployment, and runtime failures
Must have
- 7+ years in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or SRE role
- Strong hands-on Azure experience including DevOps, networking, IAM
- Working knowledge of AWS core services like EC2, IAM, VPC, S3
- Experience writing and maintaining Terraform for production infrastructure
- Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch
- Ability to design reusable infrastructure and pipeline patterns
- Solid scripting ability in Bash, Python, or PowerShell
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or AKS
- Working fluency across full application stack
- Understanding of security fundamentals in infrastructure and pipelines
- Hands-on use of Claude Code in daily engineering work
- Comfortable working directly with client teams in agile delivery
Nice to have
- Azure certification such as AZ-400, AZ-104, or AZ-305
- AWS certification, Solutions Architect Associate or higher
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification
- Anthropic/Claude certification
- Experience with policy-as-code tools like Sentinel, OPA, or Azure Policy
- Experience integrating security scanning into pipelines
- Prior consulting or client-facing delivery experience
What you get
- Competitive salary with annual profit-sharing opportunity
- 401k matching
- 25 days of annual paid time off
- Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
- Reimbursement for commuting, mobile phone, and home internet expenses
- Sponsorship towards professional certifications with 5 days paid training time
Experience and education
- 7+ years of relevant experience
Key skills
- azure
- azure devops
- terraform
- aws
- ci/cd
- github actions
- docker
- kubernetes
- aks
- bash
- python
- powershell
- iam
- vpc
- s3
- ec2
- secrets management
- policy-as-code
- sentinel
- opa
- azure policy
- sast
- dependency scanning
- container scanning
About Alpha FMC Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha) is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, we have worked for over 20 years to bring together specialist, sector-focused strategy, management consulting and technology expertise to support the entir…
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