Cloud Platform Development Engineer -Staff
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · DevOps · Cloud Engineering
In short
Qualcomm seeks a highly skilled Staff Cloud Platform Development Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, developing, automating, and operating large-scale cloud platforms. This role involves extensive work with cloud-native technologies, IaC, CI/CD, container orchestration, observability, and SRE practices to build scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Develop reusable cloud architecture patterns and platform services.
- Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region deployment strategies.
- Manage containerization tools like Kubernetes and Docker for microservices application development.
- Drive cloud modernization and cloud-native adoption initiatives.
- Implement secure cloud workload practices including secure logins.
- Develop automation tools and cloud-native services using Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
- Build self-service capabilities to improve developer productivity.
- Create APIs and integrations for platform operations.
- Lead DevOps initiatives with a focus on CI/CD practices, deployment automation, and orchestration.
- Collaborate with project managers and development partners to ensure effective delivery, deployment, operation, monitoring, and support of Cloud engagements.
- Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
- Drive DevOps and platform engineering best practices across development teams.
- Automate software build, test, security scanning, and deployment processes.
- Improve deployment frequency, reliability, and release automation.
- Implement cloud security best practices including IAM, Secrets Management, Encryption, and Policy Enforcement.
- Integrate DevSecOps controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance standards.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.
- Participate in architecture reviews and technology evaluations.
- Collaborate with Product, Development, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
- Lead major cloud transformation and automation initiatives.
- Identify systemic issues, lead root-cause analysis of complex production incidents, and define long-term corrective actions.
- Evaluate new tools, technologies, and cloud services; make recommendations aligned to business and engineering goals.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, automating, and operating large-scale cloud platforms with complex adjacent ecosystems.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, development and build mindset, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, container orchestration, observability, and site reliability engineering practices.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 10+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Knowledge of programming language (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc.), with experience and has passion with self-motivation for automation.
- AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform | Multi-cloud architecture experience.
- Terraform | CloudFormation | CDK.
- Working knowledge of continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline automation tools (Jenkins, SonarQube, etc.) with working experience in source code (eg., GIT), build and dependency management systems (e.g., Maven, Gradle, etc.).
- Jenkins | GitHub Actions | Azure DevOps | GitLab CI.
- Python | PowerShell.
- Datadog | Grafana | ELK Stack | CloudWatch | Azure Monitor.
- Git | GitHub | GitOps methodologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Benefits
- Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer.
- Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process.
- Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process.
- Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.
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