Lead Infrastructure Engineer: AWS, Azure and GCP

Thoughtworks - Coffeyville, KS

Full-time

Coffeyville, KS

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About the position

Infrastructure Developers at Thoughtworks play a crucial role in helping clients build and evolve systems that are essential for delivering and running software. They work collaboratively within diverse teams to find solutions that align with organizational needs, championing technical quality and effective working methods to achieve better outcomes for clients. The role emphasizes understanding agile methodologies and DevOps as a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Explore the client's needs and drive the building of a technical roadmap and impactful solution that supports their ambitious business goals.
• Shape and build Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with business development, marketing, and capabilities development teams.
• Ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
• Take a leading role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
• Provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, cloud, platform, and infrastructure engineering, both internally and at client sites.
• Establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client's leadership across engineering and commercial functions.
• Lead the design and implementation of innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.

Requirements

• Lead the collaborative design of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and administer application servers, web servers, and databases.
• Deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation, and application hosting technologies.
• Experience working with software delivery teams and understanding DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Regularly apply DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, and Infrastructure as Code to work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches.
• History of working with server virtualization, at least one IaaS cloud platform, and two or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless, and databases.
• Ability to write scripts using at least one scripting language and build Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile.
• Worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance, or security, and stress and performance testing with observability patterns.
• Understanding of security concerns, threats, and approaches for dealing with them, including infrastructure platform vulnerabilities and secrets management.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress and performance testing.

Benefits

• Interactive tools for career development
• Numerous development programs
• Supportive teammates for career growth