IT Platform Engineer Senior Manager - AWS, Kubernetes & Microservices

Boston Consulting Group; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is building a new microservices platform as part of its global IT initiative. You will work closely with platform consumers to gather feedback, implement secure and scalable changes, and collaborate with offshore and local teams to deliver high-impact cloud solutions.

The role requires deep AWS and microservices expertise, hands-on Kubernetes and Docker work, and strong CI/CD tooling skills to drive secure, automated delivery across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS and microservices architectures.
• Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes administration and orchestration.
• Strong track record with Jenkins/CircleCI/Octopus and other CI/CD tools.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to design secure, scalable DevSecOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop a microservices platform for BCG as part of a global IT team.
• Gather feedback from platform consumers and implement improvements using DevSecOps best practices.
• Engage senior stakeholders to present and evangelize the platform and its roadmaps.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

Working as part of a global IT team, your role will be to develop a microservices platform for BCG. You will work closely with consumers of the platform to gather and implement feedback using best practices for DevSecOp.

You should also be comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders to help present and evangelize the platform.

BCG is a consensus culture and a key to success in this role will be the ability to engage staff, foster collaboration and partner with others in a way that supports and enables our business.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Resolving complex issues/problems and able to independently bring in the right resources at the right time to assist when necessary
• Consultative approach to working especially when interacting with team members and stakeholders as you will need to possess the ability to influence direction, articulate risks and sell secure solutions/roadmaps
• Good at building and maintaining relationships with team members including team members located in different offices.
• Used to working in Agile development teams.
• Working with offshore development teams as you will be based in Lisbon and you will be working with teams in New Delhi.
• Being hands on and implementing solutions in multiple technologies such as Kubernetes, Python and Terraform.

What You'll Bring

Must Haves

• 10 years plus experience in AWS and microservices based architecture.
• Hands on, low level AWS experience.
• 4 years plus experience with docker and Kubernetes.
• 8 years plus experience with Jenkins/CircleCI/Octopus and other CI/CD Tools.
• 4 Years plus experience in packer/Terraform.

Good To Have

• AWS Certifications
• Application development experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes addons, security, monitoring, scaling etc.

Who You'll Work With

As a senior member of the Squad within the cloud and platform engineering tribe you will report to the chapter lead for infrastructure and work closely with developers, testers and other teams across BCG to develop a micro services platform for BCG. Alongside other members of the team you will interact with business stakeholders to tailor the platform to meet their needs.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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