Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud & DevOps Leader

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) division. You will work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support a broad stack of development tools and technologies, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance in Capital One's cloud infrastructure.

The role requires hands-on engineering with AWS, scripting (Python/SQL/Ruby/Groovy), Docker/ECS, Ansible, and Terraform, plus leadership experience to guide teams and

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience with AWS.
• At least 2 years of team leadership experience.
• Proven experience with build/deploy tools (Jenkins, GitHub, or Artifactory).
• Bachelor's degree preferred (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners to define application capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices across teams.
• Design, develop, test, and support full-stack development tooling and technologies.
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions.
• Mentor other engineers and promote innovative, inclusive engineering practices.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Python

SQL

Jenkins

GitHub

Networking

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Docker

ECS

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) division. You will work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support a broad stack of development tools and technologies, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance in Capital One's cloud infrastructure.

The role requires hands-on engineering with AWS, scripting (Python/SQL/Ruby/Groovy), Docker/ECS, Ansible, and Terraform, plus leadership experience to guide teams and