Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a highly technical platform engineer with strong communication skills and a DevEx mindset to help make a lasting impact. The role involves delivering a PaaS solution for critical business functionality and contributing to a cohesive team with the right mix of collaboration, ownership, and standout soft skills.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and enhance the ROSA platform to meet product team needs.
• Design for resilience and minimize enterprise impact during outages.
• Lead solution design with attention to risk, mitigation, performance, user experience, and testability.
• Participate in sprint planning by estimating and owning development stories.
• Support automated testing and development as needed.

Requirements:

• Qualified candidates must live within a 180-mile radius of specified hub locations.
• Applicants must be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately.
• Hybrid work environment with time spent working from home and in the office.

Required Skills:

• AWS knowledge and expertise with Lambdas/IAM roles.
• Basic understanding of cloud/on-premise networking and troubleshooting experience.
• Kubernetes knowledge and expertise.
• Experience with Go programming language for API and CLI development.
• Experience with Terraform and Gitlab for CD/CI best practices.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to build relationships across various levels of the organization.
• Ability to quickly adapt to a changing environment.
• Ability to coach and mentor others.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge in enterprise application development (Spring/Spring Boot, React, Angular, Java/JavaScript) is a plus.
• In-depth GitOps/ArgoCD knowledge is a plus.
• SPIFFE/SPIRE/ZTWIM knowledge and expertise is a plus.
• Ability to foster innovation, encourage diversity of thought, and incorporate new ideas.
• Desire to provide guidance and set direction for the ROSA technology.
• Commitment to software practices of continuous integration and automated testing.
• Desire to provide automated solutions for manual processes in place today.
• Experience or comfort working in a relaxed, fun, fast-paced, startup environment.
• Willingness to be a self-starter and quick learner.
• Experience with agile development practices.
• Ability to navigate the organization and collaborate across teams and departments.