Offer summary

Qualifications:

Skilled in cloud-based systems design, Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Key responsabilities:

Design and deploy cloud infrastructure

Automate provisioning and management tasks

Implement monitoring and troubleshooting systems

Optimize scalability and performance

Ensure security and compliance measures

Job description

Job Title-Lead Platform Engineer
Duration-2+ Months
Location? Remote? Return Post COVID? Hours (Time Zone)?-NEED TO BE LOCAL TO BOSTON, NEW YORK, MIAMI OR DALLAS
Job Description
The Cloud Platform Engineer Lead is a skilled technical professional responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based systems and infrastructure within a specific cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). This role focuses on building and optimizing the technical foundation that supports applications, services, and data in the cloud environment.

Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure Design: Collaborate with architects and development teams to design cloud infrastructure that meets scalability, performance, security, and availability requirements.
- Infrastructure Deployment: Implement cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), ensuring consistency and repeatability of deployments.
- Platform Services Management: Set up and configure cloud services such as virtual machines, containers, databases, networking components, and other resources required for application deployment.
- Automation and Orchestration: Coordinate with DevOps Teams to develop and maintain automation scripts and workflows to streamline provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoot and resolve issues as they arise.
- Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices, access controls, and compliance measures to safeguard data and resources within the cloud environment.
- Scalability and Performance Optimization: Optimize cloud infrastructure to handle varying workloads, ensuring optimal performance and responsiveness.
- CI/CD Integration: Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate cloud infrastructure with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Backup and Disaster Recovery: Design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of cloud infrastructure, configurations, and procedures. Share knowledge with team members and stakeholders.
- Vendor Management: Stay updated on the latest cloud platform features, updates, and services. Evaluate and recommend new services that align with business needs.
Duration: Possibility of extension, possibility of full time employment

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