Sr. Cloud Engineer

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will take charge of the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company's cloud platform infrastructure. The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will provide technical leadership, guidance to engineering team, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the company's platform infrastructure using cloud services and automation tools.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Collaborate with software engineering and security teams to define platform requirements and ensure compliance with best practices.
• Drive architectural decisions and implement solutions that ensure scalability, performance, and security.
• Monitor and optimize the platform's health, performance, and cost-efficiency, making proactive recommendations for improvement.
• Develop and maintain automated processes for deploying, testing, and monitoring the platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues with the platform infrastructure, including network, storage, and compute resources.
• Keep informed of industry trends, emerging technologies and their potential impact or benefit to platform.
• Evaluate and champion infrastructure technologies, tools, and services to improve platform performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritize platform roadmap and initiatives.
• Document knowledge articles and work instructions.

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

• Experience gained through college degree programs and or certifications in Computer Science, Information Technology or related fields.
• 5-7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related field.
• Strong experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar).
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
• Proven experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Expert-level knowledge of networking, security, and system administration concepts.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.

Key Metrics

• Certifications at the Professional level.
• System availability.
• Process compliance.
• Data availability.
• Data quality.
• Agile delivery proficiency.
• Ticket volumes and trending.

Additional Requirements

• Need in depth understanding and implementation experience of service mesh.
• Experience with self managed implementation of data engineering tools for workflow orchestration (Airflow, Kubeflow etc.)
• Strong experience with implementation and solutioning of DevOps based automation tools ( Jenkins, GitLab etc.)
• Strong experience implementing and migrating AWS databases (Aurora Global DB cluster, Postgres RDS or similar)
• Need strong knowledge on Vulnerability management (Image scanning, Ivanti, sentinel)
• Proven experience with solutioning GitOps declarative tools for Continuous delivery in Kubernetes such as ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge and implementation experience of infrastructure monitoring tools such as Signoz
• Knowledge of implementing APIs for Secret management (Fast API etc.)
• Experience of creating custom AMIs for AWS or Azure by implementing tools such as Packer
• Experience in solutioning multi region AWS infrastructure deployment.

Job Family: Information Technology

Company: Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations: Irving, Texas Texas