Lead Platform Engineer
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ThoughtworksCloud infrastructure
Country: United States of America; No. of days in office: Fully RemoteFull-TimeLead
Salary155,000 - 249,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluency in English
- Required Skills
- DockerPythonGCPKubernetesPrometheusCI/CDTerraformAnsible
Requirements
- Bring in-depth expertise in Google Cloud Platform services, including GKE, Compute, Storage, VPC networking, and Serverless.
- Have broad familiarity with multi-cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
- Demonstrate hands-on mastery of Terraform and configuration management automation using Ansible or Chef.
- Have experience driving DevOps, CI/CD, and GitOps practices and implementing infrastructure test automation frameworks such as Terratest, Kitchen, or InSpec.
- Know platform observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK Stack.
- Have experience securing infrastructure using cloud security practices, including IAM, encryption, and network policies.
- Bring practical experience managing data infrastructure and operations, including cloud storage, high-throughput pipelines, and NoSQL databases.
- Have experience with Docker, Helm, and enterprise Kubernetes orchestration, particularly Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Have programming and scripting skills in Java, Python, Go, Bash, or similar, including building developer tooling and integrating RESTful APIs within microservices architectures.
- Demonstrate experience with platform performance tuning, dynamic auto-scaling, and cloud cost optimization.
- Be fluent in English and able to collaborate across development, operations, and security teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable platform infrastructure for development and production environments.
- Drive platform automation and CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment and operational efficiency.
- Ensure platform security, scalability, and high availability while meeting operational SLAs.
- Troubleshoot platform performance issues, incidents, and outages, and communicate root cause analyses.
- Implement containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, and manage cloud infrastructure services.
- Define and manage platform resources using Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Support DevOps and GitOps practices to streamline deployments and reduce manual intervention.
- Tune and optimize cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
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