Cloud Platform Technical Lead - AWS & Kubernetes

Talan; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 182,310,000 - 273,465,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

Talan in Cordoba, Argentina seeks a Cloud Platform Technical Lead to own the reliability and orchestration of an enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare setting. You will lead transitions to managed services, establish IaC standards, and guide L3 incident response across AWS, EKS, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, and data pipelines.

The role requires 6+ years in cloud/DevOps/SRE, deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, and strong leadership, communication, and English skills.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and end-to-end reliability of the managed Data Platform across AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, S3, Fivetran and Tableau dependencies
• Lead the technical transition into managed services, including platform discovery, dependency mapping, risk identification, knowledge transfer, shadowing, reverse shadowing, and readiness validation by platform tower
• Establish and evolve cloud architecture principles, Infrastructure as Code standards, CI/CD and release practices, observability patterns, operational controls, and platform engineering priorities
• Provide technical leadership for AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes and EKS operations, Argo Workflows, deployment automation, secrets and access management, platform capacity, and production reliability
• Translate business, service, security, and platform needs into actionable technical requirements, implementation plans, and a prioritized continuous‑improvement backlog
• Guide cross‑platform decisions involving Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, custom ingestion, S3 data‑lake operations, workflow orchestration, data quality, and downstream analytics dependencies
• Lead complex cross‑platform troubleshooting and L3 escalation, coordinating engineers when incidents span infrastructure, ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, and Tableau
• Direct technical response during major incidents, including impact assessment, stakeholder communication, recovery strategy, root‑cause analysis, post‑incident review, and preventive actions
• Ensure that changes and releases include appropriate technical review, dependency analysis, validation, rollback planning, traceability, and coordination across affected platform components
• Define and monitor reliability indicators such as availability, ingestion success, data freshness, workflow reliability, deployment outcomes, alert quality, mean time to restore service, and recurring incident patterns
• Lead improvements in automation, observability, auto‑remediation, platform resilience, deployment safety, performance, security, capacity management, and cloud cost efficiency
• Partner with Security, Governance, Analytics, IT, and platform stakeholders to ensure least‑privilege access, secrets management, auditability, controlled changes, and appropriate handling of regulated data
• Review technical designs and high‑impact changes, challenge assumptions, document tradeoffs, and ensure solutions remain secure, scalable, and supportable within the managed‑service operating model
• Mentor Senior and Middle‑level engineers, delegate ownership effectively, improve team practices, and build consistent technical capability across the distributed team
• Maintain alignment between the LatAm and India coverage windows through clear ownership, escalation paths, operating procedures, and structured handoffs
• Participate in the senior escalation and on‑call model for critical incidents outside staffed service hours

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Argo Workflows

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

On-call

Python

English

Data platforms

S3 data lake

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

HVR

Analytics pipelines

Tools

Amazon EKS

Terraform

Argo Workflows

Snowflake

Fivetran

HVR

dbt

S3

Tableau

Job description

Talan in Cordoba, Argentina seeks a Cloud Platform Technical Lead to own the reliability and orchestration of an enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare setting. You will lead transitions to managed services, establish IaC standards, and guide L3 incident response across AWS, EKS, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, and data pipelines.

The role requires 6+ years in cloud/DevOps/SRE, deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, and strong leadership, communication, and English skills.