Chick-fil-A
Lead Cloud Platform Engineer
Chick-fil-A, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383
Overview:
Interested in building an internet-scale commerce platform that will support tens of billions in annual sales while helping propel Chick-fil-A to be a global brand? We are looking for an experienced software engineer who enjoys solving a wide range of cross-cutting technology challenges and building platforms that can sustain tremendous growth from our business. In this role youll serve as a leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained to the design, development, and delivery of a highly engineered and capable container management platform to run our revenue and other critical APIs.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.?Responsibilities:Provide technical knowledge and leadership for Engineering Leads in technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, security, and microservicesBuild software delivery capabilities that will allow continuous delivery with low friction and low riskDefine and build solutions that are aligned with enterprise architecture principlesCollaborate heavily with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Site Reliability Engineering, and Engineering LeadsCollaborate with and oversee managed services providers responsible for various aspects of delivering the container management platform ecosystemIdentify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches that will address gaps in our container management platform ecosystemLead adoption of those technologies across all internal software engineering teams as they onboard to and operate on the container management platformOptimize our systems for security, performance, and costNote - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared?amongst the team members to cover?weekends and weeknights.? The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.?Minimum Qualifications:Good interpersonal and team collaboration skillsExcellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience with DevOps engineering best practices, including version control using GitHub and CI/CDUnderstanding of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShiftExperience with full stack developmentExperience deploying and managing web services/APIsKnowledge and understanding of standard office suite solutions: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPointDemonstrated ability to influence teams and software engineersDemonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse group such as software engineers and business usersKnowledge and understanding of change management processesStrong oral and written communication skillsAbility to lead troubleshooting efforts, as necessaryAbility to review and analyze system performance and capacity reports for remediation purposesPreferred Qualifications:
Experience managing container platforms at Internet/Customer scaleExperience with ArgoCD, Kyverno, and/or CalicoDeep understanding of AWS architectureHands on experience managing Kubernetes AKS, EKS, and/or GKEExperience building and maintaining platform automation capabilities around KubernetesExperience with GitHub ActionsExperience designing and implementing high-availability application architecturesKubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Minimum Years of Experience:5
Travel Requirements:10%
Required Level of Education:Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Level of Education:Bachelor's Degree
Major/Concentration:Computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or similar
Interested in building an internet-scale commerce platform that will support tens of billions in annual sales while helping propel Chick-fil-A to be a global brand? We are looking for an experienced software engineer who enjoys solving a wide range of cross-cutting technology challenges and building platforms that can sustain tremendous growth from our business. In this role youll serve as a leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained to the design, development, and delivery of a highly engineered and capable container management platform to run our revenue and other critical APIs.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.?Responsibilities:Provide technical knowledge and leadership for Engineering Leads in technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, security, and microservicesBuild software delivery capabilities that will allow continuous delivery with low friction and low riskDefine and build solutions that are aligned with enterprise architecture principlesCollaborate heavily with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Site Reliability Engineering, and Engineering LeadsCollaborate with and oversee managed services providers responsible for various aspects of delivering the container management platform ecosystemIdentify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches that will address gaps in our container management platform ecosystemLead adoption of those technologies across all internal software engineering teams as they onboard to and operate on the container management platformOptimize our systems for security, performance, and costNote - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared?amongst the team members to cover?weekends and weeknights.? The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.?Minimum Qualifications:Good interpersonal and team collaboration skillsExcellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience with DevOps engineering best practices, including version control using GitHub and CI/CDUnderstanding of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShiftExperience with full stack developmentExperience deploying and managing web services/APIsKnowledge and understanding of standard office suite solutions: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPointDemonstrated ability to influence teams and software engineersDemonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse group such as software engineers and business usersKnowledge and understanding of change management processesStrong oral and written communication skillsAbility to lead troubleshooting efforts, as necessaryAbility to review and analyze system performance and capacity reports for remediation purposesPreferred Qualifications:
Experience managing container platforms at Internet/Customer scaleExperience with ArgoCD, Kyverno, and/or CalicoDeep understanding of AWS architectureHands on experience managing Kubernetes AKS, EKS, and/or GKEExperience building and maintaining platform automation capabilities around KubernetesExperience with GitHub ActionsExperience designing and implementing high-availability application architecturesKubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Minimum Years of Experience:5
Travel Requirements:10%
Required Level of Education:Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Level of Education:Bachelor's Degree
Major/Concentration:Computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or similar