Platform Engineer Lead - AWS and DevOps

Company: Qualcomm Incorporated
Job Area: Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Software Engineer

General

Summary:

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer Lead to join our global team, working in a 24x7 support model for business-critical applications deployed in a hybrid environment – AWS and on-premise datacenter. The Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications.

The role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

• Collaborate closely with service owners to design scalable platform architecture with resiliency.
• Drive business projects with clear objectives to the SRE team that align with business roadmaps, task delegation, and implement Agile practices.
• Foster a culture of accountability by leading by example and driving blameless retrospectives for debug post-mortems.
• Oversee application deployments, infrastructure provisioning, issue debugging, and timely execution using JIRA agile methodology.
• Ensure high-quality documentation, including detailed SRE operations, configuration steps, custom procedures/scripts, testing/validation processes, and knowledge base articles.
• Drive capacity and cost optimization across all applications.
• Administer applications running on hybrid infrastructure (on-premise & cloud).
• Define SLI/SLO and implement APM dashboards (Datadog, Splunk).
• Automate complex manual tasks using scripting tools (Python, Shell/PS) and configuration management tools (Ansible).
• Debug and perform database tuning (MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB, RDS, SQL Server).
• Implement general security best practices (Azure AD, MFA/SSO, Audit & Log event tracking, RBAC).
• Provision automations with Terraform IAC and Dev Ops tools for CI/CD framework.
• Utilize AWS Bedrock for deployments.
• Work with data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, machine learning, and data analytics concepts using AWS Redshift, Data Lakes, and Snowflake.
• Develop automation using Lambda, Event Bridge, SQS/SNS and manage EMR clusters.
• Integrate Power
  
  BI for data visualization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Certifications:
  
  CKA, AWS Solutions Architect or Sys Ops Administrator.
• Expertise in Dev Sec Ops , K8s administration, Jenkins CI/CD.
• Proficiency in container orchestration (Docker, Git, JFrog, Maven, Sonar Qube, Secrets manager).
• Experience in triaging and resolving AWS security vulnerabilities.
• Strong critical thinking skills to debug complex technical issues independently.
• Experience working with multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure).
• Development skills in Java, Python, Angular
  
  JS, React
  
  JS, Power Shell.
• Strong communication skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.

• Experience with AWS ML Platform solutioning using tools such as AWS Bedrock, Sage Maker Studio, Data Lake, EKS, Carpenter, Airflow, S3/Glacier, Aurora MySQL, EMR, Airflow, Lambda, EC2, Event Bridge, SQS/SNS and Network configs (VPC, Private Link, IAM roles, SG, ALB, WAF, IP policies), Cloud Formation, CDK, RDS, Data Lake - Snowflake.
• Machine Learning & AI - Bedrock, Terraform IAC, Azure.
• Working knowledge of AWS deployment architecture (IAM/Security best practices, EKS, Networking).
• Good understanding of server, storage, and Well Architected Frameworks (WAF).

• Able to execute multiple projects with good communication and prioritization with service owners.
• Strong communication – will take part in Agile Scrum/PI planning for project/task prioritizations and lead discussions for SRE project updates, dependencies, technical roadmap, and infrastructure cost forecasting.

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