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Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Prophecy Technologies

 

Alpharetta, GA, USA

Posted On: 30+ days ago
Experience: 8+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Cloud Platform Engineer
Tenure: No Preference/Any
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Description

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly experienced Cloud, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps professional to lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, data platforms, and engineering leadership, with a proven ability to drive modernization, reliability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and deliver scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions leveraging Kubernetes, microservices, and modern distributed architectures.
  • Define and govern enterprise architecture standards, technical roadmaps, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
  • Lead solution architecture reviews ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and compliance requirements are met.
  • Drive DevSecOps adoption through CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security integration, and platform governance.
  • Establish observability, monitoring, incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous service improvement practices.
  • Design resilient platform services utilizing service discovery, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
  • Collaborate with business, product, security, and engineering teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, solution reviews, and guidance to engineering teams.
  • Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives through cost governance, resource utilization analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Partner with engineering teams to implement right-sizing, storage optimization, and operational efficiency improvements.
  • Provide actionable cloud cost insights and recommendations to business and technology stakeholders.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins.
  • Integrate security controls including SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and container security scanning into deployment pipelines.
  • Implement enterprise security standards covering identity and access management, secrets management, compliance, and governance.
  • Establish secure Kubernetes and container platform standards.
  • Oversee Snowflake platform administration, security, governance, performance optimization, and cost management.
  • Support enterprise data integration, warehouse optimization, access controls, and data protection requirements.
  • Evaluate and govern AI-enabled solutions, proof-of-concepts, and associated cloud consumption models.
  • Collaborate with data engineering and security teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and reliable data solutions.

Required Skills:

  • Experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering, or DevSecOps.
  • Strong expertise in Kubernetes, containerization, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP.
  • Extensive experience implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
  • Proficiency in Java and modern software engineering methodologies including Agile, TDD, and automated testing.
  • Experience with Kafka, Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra.
  • Strong understanding of cloud governance, security, compliance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
  • Proven ability to lead architecture initiatives, mentor teams, and engage with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications:

  • 8-10 years of experience.

Preferred Skills:

  • Cloud Architecture Certifications (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
  • FinOps and Cloud Cost Management experience.
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and observability platforms.
  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise modernization and transformation programs.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills

Education

Any Graduate

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