Principal Platform Engineer/DevSecOps Architect - W2 Contract

Title: Principal Platform Engineer - Python, DevSecOps, and OpenShift

Location: Irving Texas 75039

Duration: 24 Months

W2 Contract

About this Role:

This is a Principal Platform Engineering / DevSecOps Architect role. The client is looking for a consultant with 10–15+ years of enterprise engineering experience who has a strong Python development background but, more importantly, has designed and implemented enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, GitHub Actions automation, DevSecOps controls, OpenShift deployments, and Harness CD pipelines. They want someone who can define engineering standards, build reusable automation, and lead platform initiatives across a large financial institution

Required Qualifications

• 10 plus years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering initiatives.
• 10 plus years of building web applications and APIs using industry-standard frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask).
• 8 plus years designing and implementing CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, including GitHub Actions and reusable workflow development.
• Hands-on experience integrating security and quality scanning into CI/CD pipelines (Sonar, Checkmarx, Black Duck, GitHub Secret Scanning, and DAST) with enforceable policy gates.
• 5 plus years of experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) including deployment automation.
• Experience building or operating deployment automation to OpenShift using Harness CD (or equivalent), including promotion, approvals, and rollback strategies.
• 5 plus years of DevSecOps or application security engineering experience, including compliance automation and vulnerability management.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, platform, and governance stakeholders to deliver reusable standards and adoption outcomes.
• Experience utilizing coding assistants (GitHub Copilot) and AI-powered development tools in a professional engineering environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• 12 to 15 plus years of Python development with deep expertise in modern Python patterns, packaging, and test automation (Pytest).
• Experience developing and maintaining Django-based platforms at enterprise scale; familiarity with Wagtail CMS and Wagtail CRX (CodeRed CMS).
• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering and operational patterns (multi-tenant clusters, resource governance, observability).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices (Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD) and policy-as-code approaches.
• Deep familiarity with branching strategies, repo governance, and release branching models for enterprise delivery.
• Experience with SRE practices, observability platforms, and incident management workflows.
• Familiarity with spec-driven development (e.g., GitHub Spec-Kit) and API-first design.

Additional:

• Must have demonstrable prior experience with Open-Source Contributions to Conda-Forge, Pixi Package Manager, Developing GitHub Actions and CI/CD Automation.
• Steers platform engineering excellence - establish CI/CD patterns, IaC templates, and golden-path repos. Evangelizes DevSecOps, GitOps (EPLX) and DORA metrics
• 10 plus years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and lead complex engineering initiatives.
• 10 plus years of building web applications and APIs using industry-standard frameworks (Django, FastAPI,)
• 8 plus years designing and implementing CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, including GitHub Actions
• 5 plus years of experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) including deployment automation.
• Experience building or operating deployment automation to OpenShift using Harness CD (or equivalent), including promotion, approvals, and rollback strategies.

Regards

Rajesh

Arrowminds Inc