Technical Architect Platform Engineering

Short Description

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies
  • Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, 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
  • This is an individual contributor role with technology leadership as a core competency

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