Envision Employment Solutions is currently looking for an AWS Lead Platform Engineer for one of our partners, a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology and engineering services.

This position requires flexibility to work on US times and flexibility to travel abroad when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Lead your teams as they design, develop, and maintain platforms using AWS services, adhering to best practices for scalability, reliability, and security.
• Design and deploy Windows and Linux servers following infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices
• Use configuration management tooling to automate the deployment and configuration of third-party software products
• Design, deploy and administer Container Orchestration environments following infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices
• Design, deploy and maintain container-based solutions
• Lead other platform engineers, providing guidance and mentoring to help others improve their skills.
• Measure your team performance against industry benchmarks
• Peer review code, ensuring it is of high quality, well-structured, and maintainable.
• Lead a community of like-minded engineers to ensure we learn from one another and continuously improve our practices

Requirements:

• Essential Technical Skills (all require 6yrs+ experience in production setting):
• Expert designing and building secure platforms on AWS using well architected framework
• Expert with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi)
• Expert with Configuration Management tooling (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Expert with setting up and administering Container Orchestration systems (e.g. EKS, AKS, OpenShift)
• Expert with Container technologies (e.g. Helm, Harbour)
• Expert with Build & Release Automation (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, SonarQube)
• Expert with Coding Languages (e.g. Python, Bash, Powershell, Go)
• Expert working with distributed source control solutions and following best practices e.g. Git, branching, pull requests
• Expert in building products using enterprise integration patterns and practices (like event-driven architectures)
• Must have AWS Solution Architect certification

• Desirable Technical Skills:
• Experience with Cloud Networking
• Experience administering Operating Systems
• Experience setting up and administering observability tooling
• Experience of Agile and product-based Delivery
• Experience of good coding patterns & practices