Sr. IAC Architect

CAA is seeking a Senior IaC Architect to own the strategy, structure, and governance of its infrastructure-as-code ecosystem across global platforms. The role is a high-visibility technical lead position responsible for defining how IaC is designed, standardised, secured, versioned, reviewed, and scaled across environments. The architect acts as gatekeeper for IaC direction, establishing patterns, frameworks, guardrails, and operating models for engineering teams to follow across CI/CD pipelines, Terraform modules, deployment workflows, and automation capabilities.

• Own the overall strategy, structure, governance, and operating model for CAA's infrastructure-as-code practice across global platforms.
• Serve as the gatekeeper for IaC standards, ensuring Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, automation patterns, and deployment workflows align with approved architectural direction.
• Define and maintain IaC frameworks, reusable patterns, guardrails, naming conventions, module structures, repository standards, and environment promotion models, including standards for Terraform module design, versioning, testing, publishing, reuse, and lifecycle management.
• Set the blueprint for CI/CD pipeline architecture across GitHub and Azure DevOps, including branching strategies, approval workflows, release gates, and deployment controls.
• Partner with engineering, security, operations, and platform teams to translate business and technical requirements into scalable IaC strategies.
• Review and approve IaC designs, pipeline structures, Terraform patterns, and automation approaches to ensure consistency, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Define and enforce policy-as-code, security scanning, secrets management, compliance controls, and DevSecOps practices within IaC and CI/CD workflows.
• Establish standards for automated validation, regression testing, resiliency testing, drift detection, infrastructure health checks, and self-healing or proactive automation.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud, network, Kubernetes, and platform automation strategies, driving consistency across environments for current and future infrastructure needs.
• Create and maintain IaC reference architectures, technical documentation, decision records, diagrams, and implementation guidance
• Mentor engineers on IaC best practices, Terraform standards, CI/CD design, automation patterns, and operational excellence
• And continuously evaluate and improve CAA's IaC maturity, tooling, governance model, and automation capabilities to reduce risk, eliminate inconsistency, and improve delivery velocity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong, hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, including modular, version-controlled designs.
• Deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub (Actions) and Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with Git branching strategies and merge/pull request workflows, including branch policies and pipeline gating.
• Fundamental understanding of cloud and network technologies (e.g., Azure or AWS, VNets, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls).
• Working experience with containers and Kubernetes (e.g., Docker and AKS).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python, or Bash), a forward-thinking automation-first mindset, and the ability to collaborate across teams.

• Relevant certifications such as HashiCorp Terraform Associate or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale and GitOps workflows (e.g., Helm, Argo CD, or Flux).
• Interest in media and entertainment technology or workflows.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and policy-as-code (e.g., OPA or Sentinel) and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).

• Hybrid, based in the Nashville office.

• Eligible for a discretionary bonus.

• Regular full-time employees are eligible for a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Medical, basic life and AD&D insurance, telemedicine, and employee assistance and mental health counselling are offered with the company paying 80%-100% of the cost.
• Paid vacation/holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave and other paid leaves of absence, NICU leave, bereavement resources, adoption benefits, educational assistance, mental health resources, and an employee assistance plan are included.
• Voluntary benefits include dental and vision insurance, a 401K plan, flexible spending accounts (health care and dependent care), a health savings account, and voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
• Commuter benefits are offered.
• Other statutory mandated benefits are offered.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CAA has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally, and represents more than 2,000 of the world's top athletes and sports personalities.