Lead Platform Engineer, OpenCredo

Salary not provided

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cassandra

Terraform

ELK

Ansible

Spark

Prometheus

Sagemaker

Golang

Pulumi

Senior and Expert level

London

Technical solutions consultancy

Job no longer available

Technical solutions consultancy

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataMachine LearningCloud Computing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cassandra

Terraform

ELK

Ansible

Spark

Prometheus

Sagemaker

Golang

Pulumi

Senior and Expert level

London

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataMachine LearningCloud Computing

Company mission

To unlock business value by inspiring, aligning and building more reliable and smarter software solutions that makes life better and easier for everyone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Client facing Cloud & Platform expert: You will be comfortable advising and guiding clients, confident in your ability to deliver as a Cloud and Platform Engineering Expert. Expertise working with core solutions and offerings of at least one of the major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)
Distributed Systems Experience: You have played a primary role in architecting and developing complex distributed architectures. You understand and can reason about core distributed computing principles and theory, and can recognise patterns and approaches taken by different technologies and tools in this space. You are all too aware of the fallacies of distributed computing and how this can negatively impact a solution if not taken into account
Platform Engineering Skills: You know your DevOps from your GitOps. You understand the principles underlying the creation of a platform for sustainable, repeatable, resilient continuous delivery
Pragmatic & Versatile Architecture Skills: You’re someone who is equally happy coding, whiteboarding and articulating approaches & solutions with clients, or leading a team. You understand core cloud principles and what they can offer, yet always seek to blend and balance real world considerations with pure theoretical ones when architecting solutions. You will look to bring DevOps, Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC), automation and a 12-factor mindset to the table
A Problem Solver with a Can Do Attitude: You can be relied on as the person who gets stuck in and makes things happen. You are adept at facilitating, asking probing and challenging questions and being able to uncover the true root of problems / issues which arise
Innovation & Continuous Learning: You enjoy and actively seek to learn about new technologies and techniques in tech space. You are an advocate for promoting and incorporating best practices around automation, testing and building resilience into the broader delivery process
Experience with as many of these as possible:
Container Orchestration: Experience with Kubernetes and Service Meshes (such as Istio) including extending K8S by building operators in Golang
Infrastructure-As-Code: Automation focused technologies such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible etc
Observability: Log management, monitoring, alerting and Distributed Tracing tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin
Security: Secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault, Zero Trust models
Microservices & Serverless: Large scale microservice and/or serverless solutions, which have run across multiple delivery teams and streams
Modern Data Platforms utilising technologies such as: Apache Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, RDBMS, Cloud specific data offerings (eg SageMaker etc)

What the job involves

Your experience as a cloud and platform engineering focused technologist and leader will involve helping companies of various shapes and sizes design, architect and implement scalable, reliable cloud native solutions
Cloud Native Architecture & Design and Hands On Delivery: Design, Build and Develop modern, scalable cloud platforms which deliver value and provide end-to-end solutions. This may involve building a scalable multi-region Kubernetes cluster, or a secure and highly transactional data streaming pipeline. You may also land up coding new Terraform providers in Golang or creating automated repeatable builds, pipelines and environments
Leadership & Consulting: Provide technical leadership and guidance for our clients and your fellow colleagues in the area of cloud and platform engineering. Advise and guide on best practices and pragmatic solutions for building and delivering cloud native solutions within broader IT, software and organisational contexts. Guide, teach and provide space for OCers to learn their craft, and advance their careers
Pre Sales Activities: Assist with creating and providing input into proposals, as well as technically liaising and representing OC in pre-sales calls
Public Speaking (optional). Develop and deliver talks at international conferences, meetups and within the broader community (Help provided)

Salary benchmarks

Our take

For many companies, building and deploying emerging technologies such as Google Cloud and Kubernetes can be a difficult and lengthy undertaking. OpenCredo solves this problem by helping businesses to unlock the value of emerging technologies.

OpenCredo's team boasts an impressive range of technical expertise in application delivery and infrastructure automation. They offer in-depth, personalised solutions that help businesses make decisions around cloud native and open source technologies. To date, they have worked with an enviable list of big-name companies, including Tesco, HSBC and Porsche.

OpenCredo's combination of strategy, proof-of-solutions, delivery teams and training has earned it a loyal following amongst its users. As with any consultancy organisation, building and maintaining this reputation will be vital as they scale.