Senior Platform Architect (Cloud, DevOps & Automation)

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Position Summary

CLA is seeking a Senior Platform Architect (Cloud, DevOps & Automation) to lead the design, strategy, and evolution of our enterprise platform capabilities. This individual will play a key role in modernizing infrastructure, accelerating platform engineering initiatives, and enabling scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native solutions across the firm.

This role partners closely with engineering, security, operations, and business technology teams to define platform architecture standards, establish automation frameworks, and drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and cloud best practices.

How You'll Make an Impact

Platform Architecture & Strategy

- Define and maintain the enterprise platform architecture roadmap.
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
- Establish architectural standards, patterns, and governance models for platform services.
- Provide technical leadership on platform modernization initiatives.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

- Design and optimize Azure-based platform services and infrastructure.
- Lead adoption of cloud-native architectures and services.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements.
- Drive infrastructure scalability, observability, resiliency, and cost optimization efforts.

DevOps & Automation

- Develop and promote Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, or comparable technologies).
- Define and enhance CI/CD pipeline architectures and deployment strategies.
- Implement automation solutions that improve operational efficiency and developer experience.
- Promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Site Reliability & Operational Excellence

- Establish reliability, monitoring, logging, and observability standards.
- Partner with operations teams to improve service availability and incident response capabilities.
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and resiliency planning.
- Drive operational maturity through SRE principles and automation.

Collaboration & Leadership

- Collaborate with engineering, security, architecture, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor engineers and architects on platform engineering best practices.
- Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations.
- Influence strategic technology decisions across the organization.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

4 years relevant experience required.

- Experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies.
- Experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale platform engineering initiatives.
- Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent.
- Experience leading architecture reviews and technology modernization efforts.

Education

Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.

- Degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or a related field preferred.

Technical Competencies

- Expertise in platform architecture, including design of scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available technology platforms.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and services across public cloud environments (Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience defining platform standards, reference architectures, architectural decision records (ADRs), and technology roadmaps.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- Experience designing and governing CI/CD deployment patterns, release automation processes, and modern software delivery practices.
- Knowledge of DevOps methodologies, GitOps principles, source control management, and automated testing frameworks.
- Experience partnering with Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and engineering teams to establish platform capabilities and operational standards.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts, service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and reliability engineering practices.
- Knowledge of security architecture principles, identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure-by-design practices.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
- Ability to assess technical risks, identify architectural gaps, and develop scalable remediation strategies.
- Proficiency in documenting complex technical solutions and communicating architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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