Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Our organization seeks a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Platform Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This pivotal role focuses on architecting, developing, and refining cloud-based services to advance our internal hosting platform.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based services using Go to enhance and extend our internal hosting platform.
• Develop automation services integrated with GitHub APIs to streamline workflows, enforce policies, and improve developer experience.
• Build and maintain developer-facing CLI tools that simplify interaction with the platform and improve productivity.
• Enforce policy compliance through API-level validation mechanisms, ensuring security and governance standards are met.
• Champion Shift Left and Shift Right testing methodologies, embedding static analysis, contract testing, and observability early and throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including platform engineers, developers, and security experts to define and implement best practices.
• Lead technical discussions and provide mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Monitor and enhance platform observability using tools such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry to ensure reliability and performance.
• Drive continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Docker to automate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve platform capabilities and developer experience.

• Go: Expert-level proficiency in Go programming language, with experience developing cloud-based services. Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that integrates deeply with cloud APIs.
• Kubernetes: Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, resource management, and extensibility. Experience building custom controllers and operators to automate cluster operations.
• GitOps: Hands-on experience with GitOps principles and tools, enabling declarative infrastructure and application management through Git repositories.
• GitHub API: Proficient in leveraging GitHub APIs to build automation services, integrate workflows, and enforce policies programmatically.
• CI/CD: Deep knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, particularly using Azure DevOps and Terraform for infrastructure as code and deployment automation.
• Terraform: Skilled in writing and managing Terraform configurations to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, especially within Azure environments.
• Azure: Experience working with Microsoft Azure cloud services, including container orchestration, networking, and security features.
• Docker: Proficient in containerization concepts and Docker tooling to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications.
• Kubernetes Controllers and Operators: Proven track record of designing and implementing Kubernetes controllers and operators to automate complex workflows and platform features.
• Policy Automation: Experience developing automated policy enforcement mechanisms, including API-level validation to ensure compliance and governance.
• API Validation: Expertise in designing and implementing API validation strategies to maintain platform integrity and security.
• Static Analysis: Familiarity with static code analysis tools and techniques to detect issues early in the development lifecycle.
• Prometheus: Experience setting up and managing Prometheus for monitoring Kubernetes clusters and applications.
• OpenTelemetry: Knowledge of OpenTelemetry standards and tools to instrument applications and infrastructure for observability.

• Node.js: Experience with Node.js for building backend services or automation tools.
• TypeScript: Familiarity with TypeScript for developing scalable and maintainable JavaScript applications.
• ProBot: Knowledge of ProBot framework for building GitHub Apps to extend GitHub workflows and automation.
• Canary Deployments: Understanding of canary deployment strategies to safely roll out new features and updates.
• Shift Left Testing: Experience advocating and implementing Shift Left testing practices to catch defects early through static analysis, unit testing, and contract testing.
• Shift Right Testing: Familiarity with Shift Right testing approaches, including monitoring, observability, and real-time validation in production environments.
• API Schema Validation: Skills in defining and enforcing API schema validation to ensure contract adherence and reduce integration errors.
• Contract Testing: Experience with contract testing frameworks to verify interactions between services and maintain system reliability.