Senior Cloud DX Architect: Progressive Delivery & GitOps

AlphaSense; United States; On-site; USD 246,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is hiring a Principal Engineer for the Cloud DX team to shape the architecture of how we build, configure, and safely ship software across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and regions. You will lead a hands-on function influencing dozens of teams and elevating engineering practices globally.

You will champion AI-assisted workflows within the SDLC, advance progressive delivery, and partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to drive scalable, reliable delivery across

Qualifications

• Experience in Platform Engineering focused on CI/CD at companies with 250+ engineers.
• Experience owning and operating a CI/CD platform at admin and architecture level, including security, configuration, and enablement
• Fluent in GitOps and declarative configuration at scale
• Proven ability to design and operate delivery systems at large scale
• Hands-on production-quality software development experience
• Passion for progressive delivery practices: canary deployments & automated rollbacks
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Passion for using AI to improve engineering velocity, quality, and developer experience

Responsibilities

• Own the CI/CD and configuration management architecture across our production fleet
• Make spinning up a new production environment a templated operation, not a project
• Define reference architectures with performance profiles tuned per target cluster scale
• Solve version skew and release cadence across environments moving at different speeds
• Set the progressive delivery standard: canary, automated rollback, safe-by-default releases
• Build the paved paths that let product teams ship anywhere without platform knowledge
• Own delivery end-to-end and drive pipeline reliability, speed, and predictability
• Evolve our Internal Developer Portal and the self-service experience around it
• Partner with Cloud Platform, Security, and Compliance on the controls delivery must satisfy
• Set technical direction across the org and mentor Staff and Senior engineers
• Embed AI tooling into delivery workflows for lasting productivity gains

Skills

CI/CD

GitOps

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

Cloud-native

AI tooling

Collaboration

Hands-on development

Security awareness

Job description

AlphaSense is hiring a Principal Engineer for the Cloud DX team to shape the architecture of how we build, configure, and safely ship software across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and regions. You will lead a hands-on function influencing dozens of teams and elevating engineering practices globally.

You will champion AI-assisted workflows within the SDLC, advance progressive delivery, and partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to drive scalable, reliable delivery across