Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Golang Developer)

Role & responsibilities

• Manage, improve, and maintain our tools and services stack across the organization and deliver value incrementally
• Maintain and enhance our current set of managed services, which include: Kubernetes, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL
• Build mature applications and services to enable Product Development teams through in-house self-service portal
• Collaborate with Development and Engineering teams to understand gaps and requirements while meeting expectations
• Architect and implement solutions for internal self-service offering technical architecture diagrams and user guides for internal administrators, operators, and users
• Join team meetings daily and as needed and collaborate with peers and teams within the organization
• Troubleshoot issues by reviewing information at hand, develop detailed implementation plan with automation and test details, and mentoring team members
• Be on a rotational on-call schedule with the team
• Perform other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager or team lead depending on severity and business needs
• Occasional travel as necessary

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, however equivalent work experience in similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.
• 8+ years of experience building and/or configuring Cloud infrastructure and services (on-prem or public) through code, such as Terraform.
• 8+ years of experience with Cloud Native solutions (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure).
• 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Java/Golang/Ruby/Python).
• Experience working with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with one or more distributed version control/Source Code Management (SCM) technology and its workflows like git and the understanding of the GitOps/DevOps mindset.
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining highly available services at scale.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure test automation.
• Experience with web technologies utilizing Microservices, SOA patterns and REST.