Platform Engineer Lead - AWS and DevOps
Listed on 2026-01-12
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, Systems Engineer
Company:
Qualcomm Incorporated
Job Area:Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Software Engineer
GeneralSummary:
Job Description: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer Lead to join our global team, working in a 24x7 support model for business-critical applications deployed in a hybrid environment – AWS and on-premise datacenter. The Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications.
The role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).
Key Responsibilities:- Collaborate closely with service owners to design scalable platform architecture with resiliency.
- Drive business projects with clear objectives to the SRE team that align with business roadmaps, task delegation, and implement Agile practices.
- Foster a culture of accountability by leading by example and driving blameless retrospectives for debug post-mortems.
- Oversee application deployments, infrastructure provisioning, issue debugging, and timely execution using JIRA agile methodology.
- Ensure high-quality documentation, including detailed SRE operations, configuration steps, custom procedures/scripts, testing/validation processes, and knowledge base articles.
- Drive capacity and cost optimization across all applications.
- Administer applications running on hybrid infrastructure (on-premise & cloud).
- Define SLI/SLO and implement APM dashboards (Datadog, Splunk).
- Automate complex manual tasks using scripting tools (Python, Shell/PS) and configuration management tools (Ansible).
- Debug and perform database tuning (MySQL, Mongo
DB, RDS, SQL Server). - Implement general security best practices (Azure AD, MFA/SSO, Audit & Log event tracking, RBAC).
- Provision automations with Terraform IAC and Dev Ops tools for CI/CD framework.
- Utilize AWS Bedrock for deployments.
- Work with data ingestion, transformation, warehousing, machine learning, and data analytics concepts using AWS Redshift, Data Lakes, and Snowflake.
- Develop automation using Lambda, Event Bridge, SQS/SNS and manage EMR clusters.
- Integrate Power
BI for data visualization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
- Certifications:
CKA, AWS Solutions Architect or Sys Ops Administrator. - Expertise in Dev Sec Ops , K8s administration, Jenkins CI/CD.
- Proficiency in container orchestration (Docker, Git, JFrog, Maven, Sonar Qube, Secrets manager).
- Experience in triaging and resolving AWS security vulnerabilities.
- Strong critical thinking skills to debug complex technical issues independently.
- Experience working with multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure).
- Development skills in Java, Python, Angular
JS, React
JS, Power Shell. - Strong communication skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
Skills:
- Experience with AWS ML Platform solutioning using tools such as AWS Bedrock, Sage Maker Studio, Data Lake, EKS, Carpenter, Airflow, S3/Glacier, Aurora MySQL, EMR, Airflow, Lambda, EC2, Event Bridge, SQS/SNS and Network configs (VPC, Private Link, IAM roles, SG, ALB, WAF, IP policies), Cloud Formation, CDK, RDS, Data Lake – Snowflake.
- Machine Learning & AI - Bedrock, Terraform IAC, Azure.
- Working knowledge of AWS deployment architecture (IAM/Security best practices, EKS, Networking).
- Good understanding of server, storage, and Well Architected Frameworks (WAF).
- Able to execute multiple projects with good communication and prioritization with service owners.
- Strong communication – will take part in Agile Scrum/PI planning for project/task prioritizations and lead discussions for SRE project updates, dependencies, technical roadmap, and infrastructure cost forecasting.
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