DevOps Architect

About the Role

The DevOps Architect is responsible for defining and evolving the technical strategy, architecture, and standards for automation, platform engineering, and modern software delivery across IT Employee Services. This role provides architectural leadership across CI/CD, infrastructure as code, environment standardization, observability, resiliency, and secure delivery practices to enable scalable, reliable, and efficient IT products and services. The architect partners closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to translate business needs into practical platform and automation capabilities.

This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX / Auburn Hills, MI and requires an in-office presence with flexibility. This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

Our Team

The IT Employee Services Organization provides value-added strategic partnerships with other Koch companies in ownership and support of several key processes and platforms. We deliver IT products and services that enable employee success and collaboration, foundational accounts and devices, and transformational mobility and XR experiences. As a trusted partner, we focus on people, processes, technology, and data to drive transformation. Our team members are key contributors through the application of frameworks and principles with an emphasis on leveraging critical and economic thinking to drive value.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state DevOps and automation architecture, including CI/CD patterns, infrastructure as code standards, environment strategies, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure delivery pipelines that improve deployment quality, reduce manual effort, and accelerate time to value.
• Leverage AI-enabled operational analysis and automation patterns to identify improvement opportunities, recommend proactive remediation strategies, and advance self-healing capabilities across platforms and services.
• Establish architectural standards for automation, configuration management, release governance, secrets handling, testing integration, and operational readiness.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product stakeholders to prioritize modernization opportunities and align technical solutions to business outcomes.
• Drive automation and platform improvements that increase reliability, consistency, observability, and supportability across development, test, and production environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship by guiding design decisions, reviewing patterns and implementations, and coaching teams on DevOps, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Define meaningful measures for delivery performance, service health, and automation effectiveness, and use those insights to continuously improve platform capabilities and operating models.

Requirements

• Experience designing and implementing DevOps, automation, platform, or cloud architecture in a complex enterprise IT environment.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automated delivery practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud, hybrid infrastructure, system integration, and modern application/platform deployment patterns.
• Strong analytical, architectural, and critical thinking skills with the ability to simplify complex technical decisions for diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to influence across teams, build strong partnerships, and lead through technical credibility, collaboration, and clear communication.
• Experience incorporating security, governance, resiliency, and operational support requirements into architecture and automation designs.
• Ability to challenge the status quo and lead transformation through standardized patterns, automation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with enterprise automation tooling, cloud platforms, observability solutions, and infrastructure orchestration frameworks.
• Background in DevOps architecture, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or large-scale operational transformation initiatives.
• Relevant certifications or advanced experience in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, automation, or secure software delivery practices.

Pay

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. Compensation is determined by available market data, considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.