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Lead Engineer - Managed Container
Job Id: R0000443186
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As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Lead Engineer – Managed Containers
We are looking for a Lead Engineer with strong platform engineering experience in designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on Kubernetes-based platforms. The ideal candidate will have expertise in modern application development frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and automation-first engineering practices.
Required Skills
- Strong software development experience with Java/Kotlin and frameworks such as Micronaut or Spring Boot.
- Experience with Go (Golang) and/or Groovy/Ratpack is a plus.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
- Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes.
- Experience with caching technologies and SQL databases.
- Experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS or Azure is also valued.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes deployment tools, including Terraform, Helm, and/or Kustomize.
- Experience with observability solutions, including metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native platform solutions for hosting applications and services.
- Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
- Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.
- Implement GitOps-based deployment and operational practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve platform and application operational issues.
- Improve application observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Architect infrastructure solutions that enable automation, self-service provisioning, resiliency, security, compliance, and operational excellence while delivering an exceptional Guest and Team Member experience.
- Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality cloud-native solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
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