Senior Platform Architect: Cloud, DevOps & Automation

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

Portland (OR)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

401k plan

Job summary

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) in Portland, OR seeks a Senior Platform Architect (Cloud, DevOps & Automation) to lead design, strategy, and evolution of enterprise platform capabilities. You will modernize infrastructure, accelerate platform engineering, and enable scalable cloud-native solutions across the firm.

You will partner with engineering, security, and operations to define standards, establish automation, and drive IaC, CI/CD, and SRE adoption.

Qualifications

4 years relevant experience required.
Experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, SRE, or infrastructure engineering preferred.
Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.