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Job Summary:
CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is a top 10 national professional services firm dedicated to creating opportunities for clients and communities. They are seeking an experienced DevOps Solution Architect to lead the architecture and implementation of DevOps capabilities, ensuring stable delivery and operational readiness for application workloads while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
• Define target-state DevOps architecture and reference patterns for build, test, release, and run across application portfolios.
• Partner with product, development, QA, security, and operations stakeholders to translate business and non-functional requirements into delivery and reliability solutions.
• Define architecture and standards for CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and release automation, including promotion controls, quality gates, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags), and rollback.
• Architect and automate environment provisioning using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management; define secure standards for networking, identity, secrets, and configuration across environments.
• Define patterns and operational practices for containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes), including ingress, autoscaling, service discovery, and runtime security.
• Implement observability standards (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting) and SLO/SLI reporting; lead incident response improvements and root-cause analysis to drive remediation through automation and architectural changes.
• Document reference architectures and standards; maintain runbooks, onboarding guides, and reusable pipeline/IaC templates to drive consistent adoption across teams.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements through DevSecOps practices, secure configurations, evidence collection, and automated controls (including policy-as-code where applicable).
• Provide technical leadership for DevOps initiatives by prioritizing architectural work, identifying risks and bottlenecks, and aligning roadmaps across teams and projects.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 6+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud engineering, including architecture and delivery leadership.
• Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Strong proficiency with Git-based version control, pull request workflows, and command-line tooling.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell) and declarative configuration (YAML).
• Working knowledge of at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#) for building automation, tooling, and integrations.
• Experience designing and operating solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform).
• Proficiency with CI/CD platforms (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and pipeline design for multi-environment promotion.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), including deployment patterns and operational considerations.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (e.g., Terraform, Bicep/ARM, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Familiarity with agile planning and work management tools (Azure Boards, Jira, or GitLab Issues) and tracking delivery metrics.
• Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals (networking, identity, security, and resiliency) and container-based runtime architectures.
• Solid grasp of CI/CD and DevSecOps concepts, including automated testing, security scanning, secrets management, and deployment strategies.
Company:
CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Alpharetta, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.