DevOps Platform Architect

About Carrier:

Carrier, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure the safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

About This Role:

The DevOps Platform Architect will lead the design, delivery, and ongoing evolution of the organization's DevOps platform capabilities. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for building the foundational CI/CD infrastructure that engineering teams across the organization depend on to deliver software reliably and at scale.

The primary focus of this role is GitHub Enterprise platform ownership and the development of a centralized, reusable CI/CD pipeline framework that serves multiple internal customer teams. The successful candidate will establish standards, tooling, and best practices that enable teams to adopt consistent software delivery patterns without building pipelines from scratch, reducing duplication, improving security posture, and accelerating time to delivery.

This individual will integrate CI/CD pipelines with Infrastructure as Code tooling, cloud-native deployment patterns, and security scanning capabilities, ensuring that delivery pipelines are secure, observable, and aligned with enterprise compliance requirements. They will work closely with Cloud Engineering, Security, and application development teams to embed DevOps practices across the platform lifecycle.

The role requires a self-motivated technical leader with strong problem-solving ability, excellent communication skills, and a demonstrated track record of building and scaling DevOps platforms in complex enterprise environments. The individual must be equally comfortable leading a team, engaging with stakeholders, and getting hands-on with platform tooling and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

GitHub Enterprise Platform Ownership

• Own the architecture, administration, and roadmap for GitHub Enterprise across the organization. 

• Define and enforce GitHub governance policies, including branch protection rules, code review standards, secret scanning, and access control models. 

• Establish and maintain GitHub Actions runner infrastructure, including self-hosted runners integrated with enterprise cloud environments. 

• Drive adoption of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) capabilities, including code scanning, Dependabot, and secret detection. 

• Develop and maintain a centralized GitHub Actions workflow library available to application and platform teams. 

CI/CD Platform Engineering

• Design and deliver a centralized, reusable CI/CD pipeline framework enabling consistent software delivery practices across multiple internal customer teams. 

• Build standardized pipeline templates covering build, test, security scanning, artifact management, and multi-environment deployment stages. 

• Establish CI/CD best practices and developer experience standards, including pipeline-as-code patterns, shift-left testing, and automated quality gates. 

• Define and implement deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) across cloud-native and hybrid workloads. 

• Develop pipeline observability capabilities, including build metrics, deployment frequency tracking, and DORA metric dashboards. 

Platform & Infrastructure Integration

• Lead CI/CD capability development for current and future internal platform products and services. 

• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling to enable automated infrastructure provisioning and drift detection. 

• Collaborate with cloud platform teams to embed DevOps pipelines into cloud foundation patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP. 

• Champion automation across the platform lifecycle, reducing toil and enabling self-service for engineering teams. 

Technical Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor the DevOps Platform team, providing technical guidance, career development, and delivery accountability. 

• Set team standards for code quality, documentation, security, and operational readiness of DevOps tooling. 

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, security, and application development teams. 

• Drive agile planning, backlog management, and sprint execution for the DevOps platform team. 

• Act as an internal subject matter expert and advocate for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices across the organization. 

Governance, Security & Compliance

• Ensure all CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling adhere to organizational security and compliance requirements. 

• Partner with Security teams to integrate scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection) natively into delivery pipelines. 

• Define pipeline audit logging standards and ensure traceability of deployments across environments. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery.

OR

• High School Diploma/GED with 10+ years experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise, including administration, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Advanced Security. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and operating centralized CI/CD pipeline platforms serving multiple internal teams or customers. 

• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, with experience integrating IaC into delivery pipelines. 

• Deep knowledge of containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes-based deployment patterns across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). 

• Experience building and managing self-hosted GitHub Actions runner fleets integrated with enterprise cloud environments. 

• Proficiency with scripting and automation languages such as Python, Bash, and/or Go. 

• Working knowledge of artifact management platforms (e.g., JFrog Artifactory, AWS ECR, GCP Artifact Registry). 

• Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts (SBOM, artifact signing, SLSA framework). 

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for a range of audiences. 

• Experience with IaC orchestration platforms such as Spacelift, Atlantis, or similar tools. 

• Experience with platform observability and developer experience tooling (e.g., Grafana, Datadog, Backstage). 

• Knowledge of DORA metrics and platform engineering KPIs; experience building delivery performance dashboards. 

• Experience operating in large-scale, multi-cloud enterprise environments. 

• Background in regulated industries with experience navigating enterprise change management and compliance requirements. 

Benefits:

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

• Health Care benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; wellness incentives
• Retirement benefits
• Time Off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty; military leave; purchased vacation 
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability 
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment 
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account 
• Tuition Assistance 

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here:Work With Us | Carrier Corporate  The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.  

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.  

Pay Range:

The annual salary for this position is $146,750–$205,250.  Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. 

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date. Job Posting Date: 03/05/2026

Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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