Lead Infrastructure Engineer: AWS or Azure or 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. This position requires collaboration with diverse teams to create impactful solutions that align with the clients' ambitious business goals. The role emphasizes technical quality and effective working methods, promoting agile practices and a DevOps mindset to enhance collaboration and outcomes for clients.

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

• Advanced/fluent English proficiency.
• Experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency with Terraform tool.
• Ability to 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 of DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Regular application of DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, and Infrastructure as Code in work.
• 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 across different tech stacks, web or mobile.
• Familiarity with monitoring systems for availability, performance, or security, and observability patterns.
• Understanding of security concerns, threats, and approaches for dealing with them.

Nice-to-haves

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

Benefits

• Interactive tools for career development.
• Numerous development programs to support career growth.
• A culture that values helping each other succeed.