Total Wine & More · 3 hours ago
Lead Platform Engineer
Bethesda, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$147K/yr - $198K/yr
5+ years expTotal Wine & More is the country's largest independent retailer of fine wine, beer and spirits, and they are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join their Technology team. In this role, you will manage multi-cloud Kubernetes operations, support CI/CD engineering, and lead the design and improvement of internal developer platforms while mentoring engineers and driving AI initiatives.
E-CommerceFood and BeverageWine And Spirits
Responsibilities
Manage multi-cloud Kubernetes operations on Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE—cluster topology, networking, identity/RBAC, policies, upgrades, and cost controls
Support CI/CD engineering with Jenkins and GitHub Actions—pipelines-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, artifact provenance, and rollback strategies
Manage IDP patterns using Backstage—Service Catalog, TechDocs, Scaffolder templates, and scorecards to define golden paths and governance
Support in workflow orchestration with Argo Workflows (explicitly not for CI/CD)—DAG design, artifact/versioning, resource quotas, and multi-tenant isolation
Knowledge of distributed data systems—operating Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres), Couchbase, and Elasticsearch including replication, performance tuning, backup/restore, and DR
Support in observability engineering with Prometheus, Grafana, and Grafana Tempo—SLO/SLI design, alert tuning, tracing, and actionable dashboards/runbooks
Work in platform software development using Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET—building CLIs, operators/controllers, APIs, and automation that harden and simplify the platform
Qualification
Required
Multi-cloud Kubernetes ops (AKS/GKE): topology, RBAC, policies, upgrades, cost control
CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions): pipelines-as-code, promotions, rollbacks, artifact hygiene
Backstage IDP: service catalog, scaffolder templates, golden paths, scorecards/governance
Argo Workflows (not CI/CD): DAG design, multi-tenant guardrails, quotas, artifact/versioning
Distributed data ops: Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch—tuning, backup/restore, DR
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo—SLO/SLI design, alerting, actionable runbooks
Platform Dev: Go, Node.js, C#/.NET
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent years of experience, 5-8 years preferred
Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Generous store discounts
Health care plans (medical, prescription, dental, vision)
401(k), HSA, FSA, Pre-tax commuter benefits
Disability & life insurance coverage
Paid parental leave
Pet insurance
Critical illness and accident insurance
Discounted home and auto insurance
College tuition assistance
Career development & product training
Consumer classes
& More!
Company
Total Wine & More
𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐞 & 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚‘𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞®—the country‘s largest independent retailer of fine wine.
5001-10000 employees
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