Senior Platform Engineer: Scale, CI/CD & DevOps Leader

thoughtworksreferral; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Thoughtworks is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and optimize scalable platform infrastructure, with a focus on developer experience. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, automation, and security practices while guiding teams toward best practices in cloud-native architectures.

You will mentor junior engineers, influence strategic platform decisions, and ensure reliability and cost efficiency across services.

Formación

• Experience automating cloud platforms with IaC (Terraform) and GCP serverless features.
• Ability to design secure, compliant, scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Proficient in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated tests.

Responsabilidades

• Lead design and management of scalable platform infrastructure.
• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automation and fast feedback.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of the platform.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues and perform root cause analyses.
• Manage containerized environments with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Champion IaC adoption for scalable resource management.
• Improve DevOps/GitOps practices and mentor engineers.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members.
• Propose platform optimization balancing cost and performance.

Conocimientos

IaC Terraform

GCP (serverless, networking)

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability & monitoring

Security monitoring

Java / Python / Go

Automation scripting

Herramientas

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Terratest

Descripción del empleo

Thoughtworks is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and optimize scalable platform infrastructure, with a focus on developer experience. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, automation, and security practices while guiding teams toward best practices in cloud-native architectures.

You will mentor junior engineers, influence strategic platform decisions, and ensure reliability and cost efficiency across services.