Senior Lead Engineer – Cloud Platform, DevOps & Site Reliability

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Qualcomm is looking for a Senior Lead Engineer for Cloud Platform, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to architect and operate mission-critical cloud services. This role involves leading design, modernization, and establishing best practices for scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native platforms across Azure and/or AWS environments.

Ansvarsområden

Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for scalable cloud-native platforms.
Drive initiatives focused on reliability, performance, security, automation, and operational excellence.
Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and technology evaluations.
Mentor and coach engineers, fostering engineering excellence and best practices.
Partner with stakeholders to define long-term platform and infrastructure roadmaps.
Architect, develop, and operate cloud infrastructure across Azure and/or AWS.
Define infrastructure standards and governance through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Lead cloud migration, modernization, and platform optimization initiatives.
Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Optimize cloud infrastructure costs through FinOps principles and resource governance.
Drive CI/CD strategy and platform engineering initiatives.
Build and maintain secure, scalable, and automated deployment pipelines.
Promote automation-first approaches for infrastructure provisioning, remediation, testing, and operational workflows.
Champion GitOps, configuration management, and infrastructure automation practices.
Lead capacity planning, scalability assessments, performance benchmarking, and load testing.
Drive root cause analysis and preventive actions for production issues.
Conduct chaos engineering exercises to improve system resilience.
Establish performance and reliability standards across engineering teams.
Work closely with engineering leadership, architects, product teams, and customers.
Communicate technical strategies, risks, operational status, and recommendations to senior leadership.
Influence organizational best practices for cloud operations, security, and software delivery.

Krav

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
8+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience.
5+ years of experience leading large-scale cloud platform or infrastructure initiatives.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering teams and driving technical strategy.
Expert-level experience with Azure and/or AWS.
Deep understanding of compute, networking, storage, identity, security, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Experience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
Strong expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and cloud-native ecosystems.
Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
Experience building multi-cluster and multi-region deployment architectures.
Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation.
Strong automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
Experience implementing GitOps using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
Extensive experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.
Expertise in deployment automation, release management, and software delivery pipelines.
Strong understanding of SDLC, DevSecOps, and shift-left practices.
Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog.
Experience defining and implementing SLI/SLO frameworks.
Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational excellence mindset.
Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
Deep understanding of networking fundamentals, DNS, load balancing, CDN, network security, and distributed systems.
Experience with large-scale production environments supporting mission-critical workloads.
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
Knowledge of distributed systems design, scalability patterns, caching, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, C++, or similar.
5+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native distributed systems.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations.

Önskade kvalifikationer

Experience working in large-scale SaaS, IoT, Telecom, CPS, or distributed cloud platforms.
Experience building highly available global services supporting millions of users/devices.
Knowledge of FinOps methodologies and cloud cost optimization.
Experience with security compliance frameworks and cloud governance.
Azure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS Professional, Kubernetes (CKA/CKS), or equivalent certifications.
Experience driving platform modernization and engineering transformation initiatives.

Förmåner

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Färdigheter

KubernetesDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringAzureAWSInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDPythonBashGoTerraformHelmJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitOpsPrometheusGrafanaLinuxDNSNoSQLSaaSIoT

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