Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description

Salary: $135,000 - $198,000

Swift Navigation is hiring. Swift is changing the way we navigate and understand the world. Swift’s precise positioning technology platform improves location accuracy from several meters to centimeter-level and is used by millions of devices across the globe. We collaborate—across the globe—to tackle problems, to pursue our mission and to make a real impact in the world. We are diverse, flexible, supportive and we believe our team is our most important asset.

Swift Navigation is seeking a talented Staff Cloud Platform Engineer with a focus on cloud infrastructure to join our dynamic team. As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure powering Swift’s cutting-edge navigation solutions. This role requires advanced technical expertise, leadership skills, and a deep understanding of cloud technologies to ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our platform.

Responsibilities:

1. Cloud Infrastructure Design and Implementation: Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions.
2. Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the cloud engineering team.
3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automation: Automate deployment, configuration, and management processes.
4. Cloud Operations and Optimization: Oversee day-to-day cloud operations and optimize resource utilization.
5. Security and Compliance: Ensure cloud environments adhere to security best practices.
6. High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
7. Capacity Planning and Scaling: Monitor resource usage trends and forecast capacity requirements.
8. Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud infrastructure with business needs.
9. Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and lead initiatives to enhance cloud infrastructure.
10. Incident Response and Troubleshooting: Lead incident response efforts during critical incidents.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
2. 6+ years of deep, hands-on experience in a platform or Cloud team building and supporting mission-critical services.

Requirements and Experience:

1. Experience working in AWS environments, specifically EKS, IAM, S3, EC2, ECR, ALB/NLB, ASG, KMS, and Route53.
2. Deep knowledge and experience of Kubernetes/EKS platforms.
3. Experience defining and provisioning infrastructure with IaC tooling, preferably Terraform/Terragrunt.
4. Familiarity with Kubernetes application deployment tools such as Helm and Kustomize.
5. Proficiency in scripting/programming such as Bash, Python, and Golang.
6. Experience developing infrastructure provisioning pipelines with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD.

Benefits:

We are located in San Francisco, close to public transportation. We offer flexible vacation, competitive salary, employer-covered health insurance, 401(k), flexible spending, and HSA. Tech talks, mentorship programs, and employee events are available.

Swift Navigation is a diverse and inclusive team. We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Come join us!

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $135,000 - $198,000 + equity + benefits.

Swift Navigation will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of SFPC Art.49.

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