DevOps Solution Architect

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) • Cedar Rapids, IA

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About The Position

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other. CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced DevOps Solution Architect to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment. This role leads the architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of CLA’s DevOps capabilities, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, environment automation, and operational readiness for application and platform workloads. As a DevOps Solution Architect, you will design scalable delivery patterns, enable stable pre-production environments, oversee reliable releases into production, and champion a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across development, QA, security, and IT operations teams. This role combines solution architecture with hands-on DevOps engineering leadership across all CLA environments. In addition, this role helps set the strategy and vision for DevOps and platform engineering, ensuring secure, repeatable delivery, well-defined standards, and strong monitoring, tooling, and governance.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• health
• dental
• vision
• 401k

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior