Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

TEKFORTUNE INC; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKFORTUNE INC in Cleveland is seeking a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain complex IT platforms across on-prem and cloud. You will collaborate with DevOps and production teams to ensure secure, scalable, and resilient services.

Responsibilities include managing CI/CD pipelines (GitOps, ArgoCD), IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Chef), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher), and monitoring/logging (Nagios, Splunk, ELK).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years engineering experience in platform/infrastructure, including on-prem and cloud.
• Strong expertise with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher) and CI/CD (Git/GitOps, ArgoCD).
• Proficient with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef) and monitoring/logging (Nagios, Splunk, ELK).
• Scripting skills: Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience with Azure cloud and related security/resiliency practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve platform hardware, software, and network components.
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot to improve platforms.
• Manage and configure DevOps tools to support processes.
• Collaborate with teams to update, troubleshoot, and maintain environments.
• Design and implement automated platform delivery and recovery workflows.
• Develop security, resiliency, and disaster recovery policies.
• Communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Git/GitOps

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Nagios

Splunk

ELK

Sysdig

Fluentd

Elasticsearch

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Azure

NGINX

Job description

Location: On-site in Cleveland – 5 days a week

FTE / Direct Hire

Job Description:

Role Overview

This role is responsible for designing, building, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and maintaining platforms within the current technology environment. The position involves analyzing complex technical problems and developing solutions to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware, and software infrastructure. The engineer will collaborate with other IT professionals to ensure all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently, supporting both cloud and on-premises systems in support of DevOps efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain platform hardware, software, and network requirements.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues to continuously improve platforms.
• Manage and configure DevOps tools to support processes as per organizational needs.
• Collaborate with engineering and production teams to update, troubleshoot, and maintain platforms and environments.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services.
• Develop and implement security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures.
• Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in platform and infrastructure engineering, including automated interaction with physical and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes (including Rancher).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps methodologies, Git/GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD), and Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Proven experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Nagios, Splunk, ELK, Sysdig, Fluentd, or Elasticsearch.
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of operating systems, networking, integrations, and deployment procedures.
• Experience with cloud environments, with an emphasis on Azure.

Education

• A Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, relevant experience will be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.
• Proven expertise in maintaining platform-level runtimes, including ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX), TLS certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management integrations (e.g., HashiCorp Vault).
• Experience deploying and managing observability tools, such as Sysdig for monitoring and CVE scanning, Fluentd for log forwarding, and Elasticsearch for log analysis.