Lead Platform Engineer

Complete Job Description

We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join the team. You'll help operate a secure, reliable, and highly available Cloud, managed hosting, and developer platform.

You should thrive in a fast-paced environment, be able to translate business and development team requirements into automated platform solutions. You'll be responsible for working with the Security and Compliance team and Platform Engineers to implement secure infrastructure features, configurations, and automation to create a dynamic platform-as-a-service for development teams.

You should have expertise in Cloud, network security, containers and Kubernetes, and CI / CD pipelines. You should have excellent communication skills, be able to work independently while leading others, and be able to work across development teams. You should be able to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Day-to-day Responsibilities : Candidate Requirements

Top 3 Must-Have Critical / HARD Skills :

7+ years of experience with DevOps for Containerized and Kubernetes production systems

4+ years of experience with AWS and CI / CD and developer workflow automation, such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodeStar and IaC, such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation

3+ years of experience with Kubernetes Deployment and GitOps tooling, such as Helm, Flux, or Argo CD and Cloud and Network Security architecture, such as least privilege and IAM, secrets management, RBAC, and Boundary Protection

Additional Experience :

Experience with AWS EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, SSM, ELB, VPC, or Route53

Experience with AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, or AWS Landing Zone Accelerator

Experience leading and mentoring junior Software or DevOps Engineers

Nice to Have Skills :

Experience with Istio, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, or Keycloak

Experience with vulnerability management and dynamic and static code analysis

Experience with hardened AMIs and Container Images, such as DoD STIGs and CIS Benchmarks

Experience with SIEMs, Audit, and Logging

Experience with APM, such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk

Experience with troubleshooting platform application deployments and configurations

Required Skills :

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No