Q-CTRL - Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

• Architecting our software stack strategy: Leading technical decisions across platform architecture, defining technology standards, and driving adoption of cutting edge solutions while mentoring teams on implementation. • Setting strategic direction for cloud engineering: Establishing organizational cloud standards, driving adoption of emerging practices, championing DevOps transformation, and leading cross functional engineering maturity initiatives. • Designing our development ecosystem: Defining CI/CD infrastructure roadmaps, establishing golden paths for developer workflows, evolving ephemeral environments and creating infrastructure as code frameworks for confident delivery. • Defining multi cloud and scalability strategy: Leading architectural decisions for high availability systems, establishing cloud agnostic patterns, and providing technical leadership for client specific infrastructure. • Being consistently learning, as staying on top of your game is part of your job. • Other duties within the Employee's skills and experience, or with reasonable training. • Ideally you’ll have: • 7+ years of industry experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability engineering or equivalent. • Worked with Kubernetes in a production environment before and are intimately familiar with all the things needed to create a Kubernetes cluster in a production scenario. • Expert knowledge about public clouds such as AWS, GCP or Azure to know how to configure them to current best practices as infrastructure-as-code and how that applies to a Kubernetes environment. • Worked with a variety of Linux distributions and can troubleshoot common problems. • Proficiency in software development and programming and can quickly understand what an application is doing by looking at its codebase, sometimes with minimal information at hand. We primarily work with applications that use Go, Javascript and Python. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • A keen eye that identifies areas for improvement and takes initiative in implementing new technologies and solutions while building things the right way. • It would be fantastic if you have these skills/experience but not essential: • Relevant Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS. • Relevant public cloud certifications such as AWS SAA/SAP or GCP ACE/PCA. • Familiarity with the CNCF and its various projects. • Experience using GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux CD.