Platform Engineer Lead: Cloud Resilience & DevOps

Capital One; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering team in Palo Alto. You will drive the transformation of Capital One's foundational cloud infrastructure, focusing on observability, resilience and availability.

You will collaborate with product owners and Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support robust DevOps tools across a full-stack of development technologies, mentoring others and staying current with industry trends.

Qualifications

• Minimum: high school diploma or equivalent certification.
• At least 6 years using build/deploy tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory).
• At least 4 years AWS experience; 2 years leadership.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; extensive Palo Alto/NGFW experience; scripting with Python, Ansible, Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Understand desired application capabilities with product owners.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Design, develop, test, implement and support full-stack development tools.
• Lead craftsmanship, availability, resilience and scalability of solutions.
• Mentor engineers and stay current with tech trends and communities.
• Promote innovation, inclusion, teamwork and self-organization.
• Utilize Python, SQL, Ruby, Groovy; Docker/ECS; Ansible/Terraform; AWS tools.

Skills

Team leadership

Agile practices

Education

High School Diploma, GED or equivalent

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Artifactory

AWS

Azure

GCP

Palo Alto Networks NGFW

Panorama

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Capital One seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering team in Palo Alto. You will drive the transformation of Capital One's foundational cloud infrastructure, focusing on observability, resilience and availability.

You will collaborate with product owners and Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support robust DevOps tools across a full-stack of development technologies, mentoring others and staying current with industry trends.