Lead Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the IRIS Platform operations roadmap and execute planned research and development
• Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure on Azure and AWS using best practices and governance standards
• Lead production operations, including incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Automate so that IRIS Platform is deployable easily across multiple Cloud providers such as Azure and AWS, and on-premise such as K3s and RKE2
• Work with customers and Services team to support multiple installations of the IRIS platform
• Conduct monthly audits including vulnerabilities, DAST tests, and review of backups, cost and access reviews
• Develop CICD pipelines for projects built microservices that would be deployable across multiple environments
• Implement security best practices in cloud and on-premise environments to address vulnerabilities and compliance requirements
• Develop and maintain Helm charts for packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications
• Manage operations of the databases and messaging systems Postgres, Elastic, Redis, and Kafka including configuration, scalability, and backups
• Implement auto-scaling of various platform services within the Kubernetes environment
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, or similar IaC tools
• Operate Kubernetes clusters, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to maintain SLAs and availability targets
• Apply security best practices and enforce compliance standards across cloud and deployment pipelines
• Be the operations contact point for multiple product teams

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure
• 3+ years of experience working with Linux systems
• 4+ years of commercial experience with Kubernetes
• 2+ years of experience working with Docker
• 4+ years of experience setting up CICD pipelines (AzureDevOps or similar)
• 2+ years of experience with automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• 2+ years of experience with Cloud such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Good knowledge of best security practices, vulnerability management, and testing tools such as Acunetix, Snyk, CheckMarx or Trivy
• Troubleshooting problems in Production and comfortable doing root cause analysis
• Able to work in an Agile environment

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Good working or operational knowledge of databases (Postgres, Elastic search, Redis or similar)
• Exposure to configuring web servers such as Nginx
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus
• Working knowledge of a messaging framework such as Event Hub, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment
• Access to the latest technologies and tools
• Opportunity to make a tangible impact on cutting-edge Retail/CPG AI solutions

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