Lead DevOps Engineer, Platform DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Own, build and run a suite of impactful platforms built on modern cloud technologies that provide a suite of functionality delivering APIs, integrations, security, messaging, streaming, identity, performance, reliability & containers
• Develop and drive long-term strategies and roadmaps aligning with business priorities in partnership with the Product Management team
• Build a multi-region and multi-cloud platform that allows scalable, secure service delivery across hundreds of services on AWS & Azure clouds in a regulated environment
• Act as a primary lead partnering to provide technical guidance, support, and direction for several platform engineering teams
• Support the effort to containerize a suite of applications to reduce cost and improve efficiency
• Use data-driven insights across our cloud estate to inform and drive new feature development to optimize usage and reduce cost

Requirements:

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience out of which 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience using Go, Python, Java, Ruby or equivalent
• Has 4+ years of experience in a lead engineering role, working with a diverse & distributed team located across the globe
• Will be confident in their ability to own and deliver a roadmap tied to business priorities
• Has effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated problems to all levels of the organization & customers
• Has experience in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, ECS)
• Has experience with data platforms (Elasticsearch, Kafka), queueing & background services (SQS, SNS, Resque), identity services (Keycloak, Aerobase, FreeIPA), integrations (API gateways, middleware), application security, or cloud performance optimization
• Has experience building & running modern full-stack cloud applications using public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) reliably and at scale
• Takes full ownership of products and has a track record of sustainably delivering high quality features & managing technical debt
• Has a passion for excellence, is a natural problem solver, and a critical thinker. You should enjoy digging deep to understand issues and like solving hard problems
• Has a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

It would also be great (but not essential) for you to have:

• Experience with modern infrastructure management systems (Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
• Expertise in building Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or Internal Developer Portal (IDP) solutions