Full-Stack Platform Lead: CI/CD & Cloud Automation

Freddie Mac

McLean (VA)

On-site

USD 149,000 - 223,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Freddie Mac is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineering Technical Lead to design and deliver a CI/CD platform. You will build the PDM Portal UI and services, craft cloud infrastructure patterns with Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation, and align solutions with Freddie Mac’s architecture standards.

You will drive reference architectures (microservices, event-driven, serverless), create ADRs, and develop tooling to simplify consumption.

Qualifications

8-10 years of hands-on experience in application solution architecture applied to enterprise systems.
8+ years of hands-on experience in languages and frameworks including Java, Angular, and Spring Boot.
Strong Python development skills or equivalent, including: building CLIs, automation scripts, and service backends (e.g., FastAPI).
Packaging and dependency management (pip/Poetry), virtual environments.
Testing frameworks (pytest), coverage, and mocking.
AWS experience (EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway) and AWS SDKs (boto3).
3+ years of backend service development, incl. RESTful API design.
Experience with CI/CD platforms and related technologies.
Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure design and resiliency patterns.
Hands-on with CI/CD (Jenkins), containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes operators/controllers.
Experience with APIs, Microservices, Event Streaming, Logging & Monitoring, Databases (SQL, NOSQL), Containers, Serverless Frameworks, DevOps.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience required.

Responsibilities

Design and develop the PDM Portal UI and services.
Develop advanced cloud infrastructure patterns using Terraform, Helm Charts, and/or CloudFormation as required.
Ensure solution architecture aligns with business objectives, roadmaps, and Freddie Mac’s architecture principles and standards.
Define and compare solutions to determine the optimal solutions for business needs.
Design reference application architectures (e.g., microservices, event‑driven, serverless) and create ADRs to document trade‑offs and standards.
Build tooling and services (CLIs, automation scripts, service scaffolds, and lightweight APIs) that simplify infrastructure consumption.
Develop templates for cloud infrastructure that application teams can consume.
Define and champion design for platform components and reference apps to ensure consistency, resiliency, and testability.
Establish guardrails and golden paths for observability, secrets management, configuration, and deployment across services.
Test designed components for production usage at scale (functional, performance, resiliency, security).
Ensure that delivered capabilities align with business objectives; measure adoption and developer experience outcomes.
Partner with internal collaborators and develop strong stakeholder relationships across architecture, security, networking, platform, and application teams.