Sr. IAC Architect

What the role needs

• 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 all 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.
• Establish standards for Terraform module design, versioning, testing, publishing, reuse, and lifecycle management across teams.
• 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 technical and business 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, and infrastructure health checks.
• Guide the design of self-healing workflows and proactive automation that detect, prevent, or remediate issues before they impact the business.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud, network, Kubernetes, and platform automation strategies, ensuring IaC practices support both current and future-state infrastructure needs.
• Drive consistency across environments by standardizing how infrastructure is provisioned, promoted, monitored, and maintained through code.

From the employer

Job Description Who We Are 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. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally. The Role We are seeking a Senior IaC Architect to own the strategy, structure, and governance of CAA’s infrastructure-as-code ecosystem across global platforms. This is a high-visibility technical lead role responsible for defining how IaC is designed, standardized, secured, versioned, reviewed, and scaled across environments. As the gatekeeper for IaC direction, the IaC Architect will establish the patterns, frameworks, guardrails, and operating models that engineering teams follow when building CI/CD pipelines, Terraform modules, deployment workflows, and automation capabilities. This role is centered on Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub, Azure DevOps, cloud and network technologies, and Kubernetes, with a strong focus on setting the architectural standards that ensure reliability, repeatability, security, and operational consistency. The IaC Architect will partner closely with engineering, security, operations, and platform teams to translate business and technical requirements into scalable IaC strategies while ensuring all implementations align to approved standards and long-term platform objectives. The ideal candidate is a forward-thinking infrastructure leader who thinks in code, designs for automation, and brings deep practical experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, and platform operations. You will define the blueprint for release automation, pipeline structure, branching and approval models, module design, environment promotion, policy-as-code, daily health checks, regression and resiliency testing, and self-healing workflows. While engineering teams may execute the build, the IaC Architect owns the strategy, structure, governance, and quality bar for how infrastructure-as-code is delivered and operated at CAA. This is a strategic role for an experienced IaC professional who can balance hands-on technical depth with architectural ownership, establish clear standards, eliminate inconsistency, reduce operational risk, and continuously raise the maturity of how CAA ships, governs, and operates infrastructure through code. Responsibilities 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 all 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. Establish standards for Terraform module design, versioning, testing, publishing, reuse, and lifecycle management across teams. 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 technical and business 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, and infrastructure health checks. Guide the design of self-healing workflows and proactive automation that detect, prevent, or remediate issues before they impact the business. Provide technical leadership for cloud, network, Kubernetes, and platform automation strategies, ensuring IaC practices support both current and future-state infrastructure needs. Drive consistency across environments by standardizing how infrastructure is provisioned, promoted, monitored, and maintained through code. Create and maintain IaC reference architectures, technical documentation, decision records, diagrams, and implementation guidance for engineering teams. Mentor engineers on IaC best practices, Terraform standards, CI/CD design, automation patterns, and operational excellence. Continuously evaluate and improve CAA’s IaC maturity, tooling, governance model, and automation capabilities to reduce risk, eliminate inconsistency, and improve delivery velocity. Qualifications 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. Preferred Qualifications 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). Location This role is hybrid, based in our Nashville office. Compensation The annual base salary range for this position is as follows: Nashville, TN - $200,000 - $222,000 This position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, wages may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more. Benefits At CAA, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits* package for all regular full-time employees: Benefits where the company pays 80%-100% of the cost include: Medical Basic Life and AD&D Insurance Telemedicine Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text 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 Employee Assistance Plan Employees may also elect to participate in voluntary benefits: Dental, Vision Insurance 401K Plan Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care) Health Savings Account Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance Employee Perks: Commuter Benefits Benefits offered also include other statutory mandated benefits For more information and to submit an application, please apply here: Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address. The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.