Senior Platform Architect; Cloud, DevOps & Automation

Position: Senior Platform Architect (Cloud, DevOps & Automation)
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Position SummaryCLA is seeking a Senior Platform Architect (Cloud, Dev Ops & 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.

Dev Ops & 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops, Git Hub 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, Cloud Formation, Ansible, or similar technologies.

Experience designing and governing CI/CD deployment patterns, release automation processes, and modern software delivery practices.

Knowledge of Dev Ops methodologies, Git Ops principles, source control management, and automated testing frameworks.

Experience partnering with Cloud Architecture, Dev Ops, and engineering teams to establish platform capabilities and operational standards.

Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts, service level…