Cloud Platform Architect — IaC, CI/CD & SRE Lead

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Job summary

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design, strategy, and evolution of enterprise platform capabilities. You will modernize infrastructure, enable scalable, secure cloud-native solutions, and drive IaC, CI/CD, SRE, and cloud best practices across the firm.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, operations, and business technology teams to define standards, governance, and automation frameworks, mentoring teams and influencing strategic technology

Qualifications

• 4 years relevant experience required.
• Experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise platform architecture roadmap.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
• Lead adoption of cloud-native architectures and services.
• Develop IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Establish reliability and observability standards.
• Mentor engineers and translate technical concepts for business stakeholders.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

SRE practices

IaC (Terraform/Bicep)

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps leadership

Security by design

Observability & monitoring

Architectural governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Management/CS

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

CloudFormation

Job description

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design, strategy, and evolution of enterprise platform capabilities. You will modernize infrastructure, enable scalable, secure cloud-native solutions, and drive IaC, CI/CD, SRE, and cloud best practices across the firm.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, operations, and business technology teams to define standards, governance, and automation frameworks, mentoring teams and influencing strategic technology