Qualcomm · 5 months ago
Platform Engineer Lead - AWS and DevOps
San Diego, California, United States of America
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $225K/yrQualcomm Incorporated is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer Lead to join their global team. The role involves ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of business-critical applications deployed in a hybrid environment – AWS and on-premise datacenter.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISoftwareTelecommunicationsWireless
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, MongoDB, RDS, SQL Server)
Implement general security best practices (Azure AD, MFA/SSO, Audit & Log event tracking, RBAC)
Provision automations with Terraform IAC and DevOps 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, EventBridge, SQS/SNS and manage EMR clusters
Integrate PowerBI for data visualization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
Certifications: CKA, AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator
Expertise in DevSecOps, K8s administration, Jenkins CI/CD
Proficiency in container orchestration (Docker, Git, JFrog, Maven, SonarQube, 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, AngularJS, ReactJS, PowerShell
Strong communication skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively
Preferred
Experience with AWS ML Platform solutioning using tools such as AWS Bedrock, SageMaker Studio, Data Lake, EKS, Carpenter, Airflow, S3/Glacier, Aurora MySQL, EMR, Airflow, Lambda, EC2, Event Bridge, SQS/SNS and Network configs (VPC, PrivateLink, IAM roles, SG, ALB, WAF, IP policies), CloudFormation, 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)
Benefits
Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
Opportunity for annual RSU grants
Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play
Company
Qualcomm
Qualcomm designs wireless technologies and semiconductors that power connectivity, communication, and smart devices.
Founded in 1985
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.5M1991-12-20IPO
1988-01-01Undisclosed· $3.5M
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