Cloud Platform Lead - Remote & Flexible Schedule

AgileEngine; Colombia; Remote; COP 388,387,000 - 582,581,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD pay

Exciting projects

Flextime: remote & office options

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Cloud Platform Technical Lead to own the reliability and orchestration of a high-stakes enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare environment. You will guide the transition to managed services, define cloud architecture principles, and drive IaC, CI/CD, and observability standards.

The role requires extensive hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, and data-pipeline experience, with leadership across a distributed team and strong communication with

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS production environments, including cloud architecture, security, networking fundamentals, access management, monitoring, capacity, and operational troubleshooting.
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, including workload deployment, cluster and application troubleshooting, observability, scaling, upgrades, access, and reliability.
• Hands-on experience operating Argo Workflows or a comparable orchestration platform supporting production data workloads.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and with source-controlled configuration, CI/CD, release automation, and rollback practices.
• Strong experience designing and operating observability, logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident-routing solutions for distributed production platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead major incidents and cross-functional troubleshooting across infrastructure, applications, data pipelines, and analytics layers.
• Experience operating production platforms with defined service levels, escalation paths, runbooks, change controls, release processes, and on-call responsibilities.
• Strong working knowledge of modern data platforms, including Snowflake, S3-based data lakes, SQL, dbt, managed ingestion tools such as 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 comparable languages for automation and operational tooling.
• Ability to make well-reasoned architecture and operational decisions, communicate tradeoffs, estimate work, identify risks, and guide teams through change.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers, reviewing technical work, delegating ownership, and improving engineering processes across a distributed team.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, including the ability to collect requirements, explain technical risks, and present recommendations to client leaders.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Availability to work within the LatAm service window of approximately 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time and participate in an agreed senior escalation and on-call rotation.

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, shadowing, reverse shadowing, and readiness validation by platform tower.
• Establish and evolve cloud architecture principles, IaC 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 backlog.
• Guide cross-platform decisions involving Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, ingestion, data-lake operations, workflow orchestration, data quality, and analytics dependencies.
• Lead cross-platform troubleshooting and L3 escalation across incidents spanning infrastructure, ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, and Tableau.
• Direct technical response during major incidents, including impact assessment, communications, recovery strategy, RCA, and preventive actions.
• Ensure changes and releases include technical review, dependency analysis, validation, rollback planning, traceability, and cross-component coordination.
• Define and monitor reliability indicators such as availability, data freshness, workflow reliability, deployment outcomes, alert quality, and MTTR.
• Lead automation, observability, auto-remediation, resilience, deployment safety, performance, security, capacity management, and cost optimization improvements.
• Partner with Security, Governance, Analytics, IT, and platform stakeholders to ensure least-privilege access, auditability, and controlled changes.

Skills

Cloud platform leadership

AWS & cloud architecture

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform (IaC)

Observability & incident response

Data platforms (Snowflake, S3, dbt)

Python / Bash automation

Cross-functional leadership

English communication

Tools

Argo Workflows

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Cloud Platform Technical Lead to own the reliability and orchestration of a high-stakes enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare environment. You will guide the transition to managed services, define cloud architecture principles, and drive IaC, CI/CD, and observability standards.

The role requires extensive hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Snowflake, and data-pipeline experience, with leadership across a distributed team and strong communication with