Platform Engineering Team Lead

- Build and operate cloud-native platforms in GCP and Azure, using Terraform as the single source of truth - Design and maintain internal developer platforms, not just cloud infrastructure - Create self-service workflows for engineering teams to provision and deploy without tickets - Run and improve production Kubernetes clusters (GKE & AKS) - Implement GitOps using ArgoCD, Helm, and Kustomize - Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery - Design secure cloud networking (VPCs, VPNs, peering, network policies) - Implement IAM/RBAC and authentication (SAML, OIDC, LDAP) - Build monitoring and observability that developers can use (Grafana & Prometheus) - Automate platform workflows using Bash and Python/Ruby/Go - Manage shared platform services (DNS, messaging, API gateways) - Write documentation and build golden paths for engineering teams - Participate in a shared on-call rotation - Production experience with GCP and/or Azure - Building platform tooling or frameworks used by other engineers - Designing infrastructure with developer consumption in mind - Strong understanding of cloud networking and security - Terraform as a primary tool (writing reusable modules) - Strong Bash scripting - Experience with Python, Ruby, or Go - Image builds with Packer - Operating Kubernetes in production (GKE or AKS) - Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD experience - Container security fundamentals - Strong Git skills beyond basic commits - Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines end-to-end - Clear understanding of pipeline quality and maintainability - Grafana and Prometheus in production - Designing actionable alerts with minimal noise - Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service portals (Nice to have) - Financial services or regulated environment experience (Nice to have) - Exposure to PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 (Nice to have) - Kubernetes CKA or cloud certifications (Nice to have) - Secrets management tools (Vault, cloud secret managers) (Nice to have)