Technical Architect - Platform Engineering
Technical Architect - Platform Engineering
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Job Description
- Design develop and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies
- Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality security performance and scalability using Sonarqube Cycode DAST SAST & FOSSA
- Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine CloudRun GKE Cloud operations suite Service Mesh Anthos Pub/Sub Dataflow Cloud Scheduler Bigtable AlloyDB and other managed services.
- Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC Subnet Gateway Security groups managed services Kubernetes Cluster etc.
- Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Packer Ansible Shell Scripting and ArgoCD
- Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization
- Experience in implementing Auto scaling Disaster Recovery High Availability Multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations & best practices is added advantage.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools to support the development and deployment of products on the eCommerce foundation layer
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements and translate them into technical and non-functional specifications
- Work with Product teams to understand their pain points and increase the Developer Experience through Platform Engineering Capabilities
- Experience with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like Backstage and address developer productivity
- Strategize & work with senior leaders across Fords Enterprise Architecture IT Operations to make significant measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform
- Expertise with patch management APM tools like Dynatrace/AppDynamics Prometheus Grafana ELK for monitoring and alerting.
- Experience in Elastic Search service offerings in K8s.
- Experience in Cloud FinOps to optimize Cloud Infrastructure Consumption Cost
Responsibilities
- Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape
- Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure
- Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience
- Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems
- Create and maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams design documents and operational procedures for High Availability Disaster Recovery scenarios
- Analyze kernel logs network stats APM metrics application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots API latency and application/platform health
- Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams networks and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance
- Build Automation for repeatable DevSecOps tasks and help with improving Software Engineers productivity
- Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level
- Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality Security OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform
Qualifications
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation
Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams
Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization inside and outside of the technology and software organization
Ability to lead through change
Experience with the following: Microservices architectures Micro Front-end Cloud-Native architectures Event-driven architectures APIs Domain-Driven Design Public Cloud (Google Cloud) Serverless Elastic Search Kubernetes Docker DevSecOps building scalable reliable available solutions and/or performance testing.
Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.
Experience in Cloud Native systems Transactional Systems Multi-Tenancy five-nines availability and Containerization technologies.
Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud security SRE and Release Mgmt. processes
Employment Type
Full-Time
