A hospitality leader in customer service satisfaction with numerous accolades including Newsweek’s America’s Best Customer Service report, Reader’s Choice Awards, and Glassdoor's top 100 best places to work, located in Atlanta, GA, all roles are a hybrid of office/remote role with a great salary, culture and benefits!
*Pay and company details to be discussed during the interview process and based on experience.
Job Description
Position Title: Lead Cloud Platform Engineer
Department: Information Technology
Location: Atlanta, GA
Overview:
Interested in building an internet-scale commerce platform that will support tens of billions in annual sales while helping propel Company to be a global brand? We are looking for an experienced software engineer who enjoys solving a wide range of cross-cutting technology challenges and building platforms that can sustain tremendous growth from our business. In this role you’ll serve as a leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained to the design, development, and delivery of a highly engineered and capable container management platform to run our revenue and other critical APIs.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Company culture by fostering collaboration and community.
Responsibilities:
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Provide technical knowledge and leadership for Engineering Leads in technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, security, and microservices
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Build software delivery capabilities that will allow continuous delivery with low friction and low risk
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Define and build solutions that are aligned with enterprise architecture principles
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Collaborate heavily with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Site Reliability Engineering, and Engineering Leads
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Collaborate with and oversee managed services providers responsible for various aspects of delivering the container management platform ecosystem
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Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches that will address gaps in our container management platform ecosystem
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Lead adoption of those technologies across all internal software engineering teams as they onboard to and operate on the container management platform
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Optimize our systems for security, performance, and cost
Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends and weeknights. The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.
Minimum Qualifications:
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Good interpersonal and team collaboration skills
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Experience with DevOps engineering best practices, including version control using GitHub and CI/CD
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Understanding of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift
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Experience with full stack development
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Experience deploying and managing web services/APIs
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Knowledge and understanding of standard office suite solutions: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
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Demonstrated ability to influence teams and software engineers
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Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse group such as software engineers and business users
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Knowledge and understanding of change management processes
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Strong oral and written communication skills
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Ability to lead troubleshooting efforts, as necessary
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Ability to review and analyze system performance and capacity reports for remediation purposes
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience managing container platforms at Internet/Customer scale
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Experience with ArgoCD, Kyverno, and/or Calico
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Deep understanding of AWS architecture
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Hands on experience managing Kubernetes AKS, EKS, and/or GKE
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Experience building and maintaining platform automation capabilities around Kubernetes
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Experience with GitHub Actions
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Experience designing and implementing high-availability application architectures
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Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Minimum Years of Experience: 5
Travel Requirements: 10%
Required Level of Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Major/Concentration: Computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or similar
Job Type: Full-time
