Anson McCade
Website:
ansonmccade.com
Job details:
Confidential opportunity with a global strategy firm
Our client is looking for an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to design and build cloud-based platforms and distributed systems supporting complex technology and AI initiatives for some of the world’s largest organisations.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining cloud engineering, software engineering and DevOps. You’ll work across architecture, development and infrastructure, building the platforms and services that enable engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable and reliable solutions.
The role offers the opportunity to work across a variety of client environments and industries while remaining close to the technology and delivery.
What You'll Do
- Design and deliver cloud-based distributed solutions across AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
- Build the platform components, services and infrastructure required to support modern analytics and AI workloads.
- Develop backend APIs, microservices and integrations, primarily using Python.
- Build automated infrastructure and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
- Deploy and operate containerised applications in cloud environments, including Kubernetes.
- Establish strong engineering practices around code quality, testing, security and maintainability.
- Monitor and troubleshoot distributed systems, improving reliability, performance and resilience.
- Work with engineering and consulting teams to understand client requirements and translate them into practical platform solutions.
- Advise clients on platform engineering practices, emerging technologies and opportunities to improve their technology capabilities.
- Contribute to reusable frameworks and engineering approaches that can be applied across projects.
What We're Looking For
We’re looking for a senior engineer with a strong background in cloud platforms, software engineering and modern DevOps.
You’ll ideally bring:
- 6+ years’ professional experience, including 3+ years at Senior, Staff or equivalent level.
- Experience delivering cloud and software engineering solutions within a product engineering, consulting or professional services environment.
- Strong experience across AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform, with knowledge of CloudFormation, Pulumi, AWS CDK or similar.
- Strong Python development skills, particularly for APIs, services and integrations.
- Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes, ideally GKE, EKS or AKS.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar.
- Experience with configuration management and observability tools such as Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch or equivalent.
- Experience working with databases, including schema design, scalability and structured or unstructured data.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, dbt, Beam, Metaflow or Kubeflow.
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems and software architecture.
- Good computer science fundamentals across algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, testing and performance.
- Working knowledge of Agile development practices.
Exposure to LLMs, prompt engineering or LangChain would be advantageous.
The Opportunity
You’ll join a technically focused team working on large-scale cloud and platform engineering challenges for major enterprise clients.
The role combines hands-on engineering with client interaction and technical leadership, giving you the opportunity to work across different technologies, industries and delivery environments.
You’ll have scope to shape platform architecture, solve complex engineering problems and help clients adopt modern approaches to cloud, DevOps and AI-enabled technology.
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