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Title: Lead Platform Engineer Mandatory skills:
Cloud, cloud platform, Cloud Engineering,cloud, SaaS, AWS Landing Zone, AWS Control Tower, AWS load balancers, S3, CloudFront,Financial Services, Application Delivery Teams,Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML,AWS, AWS ecosystem,Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, AWS environment,GitLab, Jenkins, Concourse, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack Description: The Lead Platform Engineer – Cloud performs an influential role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic cloud platform.This position will be accountable for the delivery of platform enablers including the design, build, security and operationalization of reusable cloud platform components in support of Financial Services users and stakeholders. The Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud role will also encompass developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Application Delivery Teams within the client Financial Services to build, deploy, and operate applications on the cloud platform. They are expected to maintain expert level technical knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and the capabilities and tools required to create platform patterns and technical best-practices with the goal of increasing adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value. They will help drive decisions on the correct usage of cloud resources, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure the highest level of reliability for the platform by tuning the environment for maximum scalability, cost efficiency, and security. This position does not have direct reports.Principle Duties and Responsibilities:Platform Lifecycleo Lead and review the final design, engineering, implementation and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns and reenforcing best practices.o Develop engineering practices, processes, and procedures for the cloud platform.o Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc.) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.o Works with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret and clarify scope of the data management platform integrations.o Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls.o Identify and recommend emerging technology trends to new and existing platform enablers.o Develop and manage the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance and financial aspects.o Contribute to platform, product and architectural roadmaps.o Design Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to enable code releaseso Enable continuous monitoring to resolve issueso Utilize platform metrics to automate scale and resilient recoveryo Ensuring the platform is built, deployed, configured, managed, and monitored correctly to support the businessPlatform Administrationo Performs development of common platform components and advanced configuration activities in the cloud platform.o Performs development and advanced platform configurationso Creates integrations between the cloud platform and other client enterprise services and 3rd party tools.o Manages the core security model configurations in accordance with information security.o Develop comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform componentso Automate design patterns as Infrastructure-as -Code (IaC) and implement and test the automationo Ability to build, test and deploy Docker imagesOperational Excellenceo Provide Tier 3 Support for core platform services and configuration defect resolutiono Performs new platform release evaluations and assess impacto Develops and maintains automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across systems and data centers.o Leads solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutionso Drafts and maintains solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security and operational requirements as defined by the larger client .o Provides direction, training, coaching/mentorship to the other Platform Engineers. As well as supporting, of technical issues relating to the Cloud platform.o Perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.Qualifications:This hands-on Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud will require a wide variety of capabilities and strengths which include:Bachelor’s degree or 10 years of direct work-related experience5-7 years of Cloud Engineering experience (AWS Preferred)Experience building and delivering highly available platform solutions, all while ensuring a high level of qualityExperience providing technical leadership to other Cloud EngineersExperience integrating platform with 3rd party solutions (e.g. from cloud to on-prem and vice-versa, etc.)Experience with engineering solutions across a heterogeneous landscape of on-prem datacenters, cloud and SaaS environmentsExperience and solid understanding of complex, multi-region, highly available state-less and state-full deploymentsExperience with AWS Landing Zone and/or AWS Control TowerDemonstrable experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, etc.)Demonstrable advanced experience with cloud automation tooling and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, etc.)Demonstrable experience using and configuring Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools (e.g GitLab, Jenkins, Concourse)Experience building infrastructure solutions leveraging containers/ container orchestration, including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deploymentsAdvanced experience with AWS load balancers, S3, CloudFront, etc.Experience with configuration management tools and techniques e.g including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStackWorking knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplineExperience with Secret Management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault)Solid understanding of Cloud Security (OAuth, OIDC)Strong knowledge and understanding of microservice based architectures, APIs, etc.Experience in a multi-account AWS environment is a plusExperience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery models including Blue/Green and Canary release models is a plusExperience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly preferred, however experience leveraging other Agile Methodologies will still be considered.Proven ability to manage one's time and prioritize work based on risk and critical needExcellent interpersonal, attention to detail, and oral and written communication skills.Proven, hands on, full stack application development experienceCurrently holds a certification that demonstrates technical knowledge with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or comparable) is preferred VIVA USA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a professional working environment that is free from discrimination and unlawful harassment. The Management, contractors, and staff of VIVA USA shall respect others without regard to race, sex, religion, age, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, physical, mental or sensory disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnam-era, recently separated veteran, Active war time or campaign badge veteran, Armed forces service medal veteran, or disabled veteran. Please contact us at for any complaints, comments and suggestions. Contact Details:Please send your resumes and one of our recruiter will get in touch with you. VIVA USA INC.3601 Algonquin Road, Suite 425Rolling Meadows, IL 60008http://www.viva-it.comVacancy expired!