Your Job 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. This role partners closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to translate business needs into practical platform and automation capabilities. The architect is expected to drive modernization, establish repeatable engineering patterns, evaluate tooling and design choices, mentor technical contributors, and influence a culture of continuous improvement, operational excellence, and measurable business value. 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.

Location:

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 What You Will Do

• 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.

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