Cloud Platform Lead - Reliability & Orchestration

AgileEngine, LLC.; Colombia; Hybrid; COP 379,711,000 - 601,209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

USD-based pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Cloud Platform Technical Lead to own the reliability and orchestration of an enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will lead AWS, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, and data ingestion pipelines to ensure scalable, secure production operations. You will drive IaC practices, CI/CD, incident response, and cross‑functional collaboration with security, analytics, IT, and governance teams, while mentoring engineers and aligning the

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Eng., DevOps or SRE.
• Deep hands-on AWS production environments experience, incl. architecture, security, networking, access management, monitoring, capacity and troubleshooting.
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, incl. workload deployment, troubleshooting, observability, scaling, upgrades and reliability.
• Hands-on experience operating Argo Workflows or similar orchestration for production data workloads.
• Strong IaC experience, preferably Terraform, and with source-controlled configuration, CI/CD, release automation and rollback practices.
• Experience designing and operating observability, logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident-routing for distributed production platforms.
• Proven ability to lead major incidents and cross-functional troubleshooting across infra, apps, data pipelines and analytics.
• Experience operating production platforms with defined SLAs, escalation paths, runbooks, change controls, release processes, on-call responsibilities.
• Strong knowledge of modern data platforms incl. Snowflake, S3 data lakes, SQL, dbt, Fivetran or HVR, and custom data pipelines.
• Understanding of data quality, freshness, lineage, schema evolution, pipeline dependencies, backfills and recovery procedures.
• Proficiency in Python, Shell, Bash or similar for automation and tooling.
• Ability to make architecture and operational decisions, communicate tradeoffs, estimate work, identify risks and guide teams.
• Mentor engineers, review work, delegate ownership and improve engineering processes.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills and English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and end-to-end reliability of the managed Data Platform across AWS, 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 and readiness validation.
• Define and evolve cloud architecture principles, IaC standards, CI/CD and release practices, observability patterns and platform priorities.
• Provide technical leadership for AWS, Kubernetes/EKS operations, Argo Workflows, deployment automation and access management.
• Translate business, security and platform needs into actionable requirements and a prioritized backlog.
• Guide cross-platform decisions involving Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, ingestion, S3 data-lake and analytics dependencies.
• Lead complex cross-platform troubleshooting and L3 escalation during incidents across infra, ingestion and analytics.
• Direct incident response with impact assessment, communication, recovery strategy and post-incident reviews.
• Ensure changes/releases include technical review, dependency analysis, rollback planning and traceability.
• Define reliability indicators: availability, ingestion success, data freshness, workflow reliability, deployments, alerts and MTTR.
• Drive improvements in automation, observability, auto-remediation and platform resilience.
• Partner with Security, Governance, Analytics and IT to enforce least-privilege access and auditability.
• Review designs, challenge assumptions and ensure secure, scalable solutions within managed-service model.
• Mentor senior/mid engineers and promote consistent best practices across the team.
• Maintain alignment across LatAm and India coverage windows with clear ownership and handoffs.
• Participate in senior escalation and on-call model beyond staffed hours.

Skills

AWS production

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Argo Workflows

Terraform

Observability

Incident management

On-call readiness

Snowflake

S3 data lakes

SQL

dbt

Fivetran

HVR

Python

Shell

Bash

Mentoring

Leadership

English communication

LatAm availability

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Argo Workflows

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Cloud Platform Technical Lead to own the reliability and orchestration of an enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will lead AWS, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, and data ingestion pipelines to ensure scalable, secure production operations. You will drive IaC practices, CI/CD, incident response, and cross‑functional collaboration with security, analytics, IT, and governance teams, while mentoring engineers and aligning the