Cloud Platform Tech Lead (AWS, Kubernetes, Argo) - Remote

AgileEngine, LLC.; Metropolitana; On-site; COP 383,056,000 - 510,742,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

USD‑based pay with education, fitness,

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

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

You will lead cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD, and incident response across AWS, EKS, Argo, Snowflake, and data pipelines, while guiding cross‑functional teams and ensuring compliant operations. You will mentor engineers, drive platform engineering priorities, and collaborate with security, governance, and analytics teams to

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE.

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 custom ingestion pipelines, 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 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

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

Argo Workflows

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Observability

Incident management

Data platforms

Python

Communication

English fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Argo Workflows

Terraform

CI/CD

S3

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

HVR

Job description

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

You will lead cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD, and incident response across AWS, EKS, Argo, Snowflake, and data pipelines, while guiding cross‑functional teams and ensuring compliant operations. You will mentor engineers, drive platform engineering priorities, and collaborate with security, governance, and analytics teams to