Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

BlackLine•Los Angeles, CA

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer to lead the development of new Cloud native tools and services with extensive experience with Infrastructure as code (IAC). As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will work as a technical lead to design, build, and manage various cloud initiatives designed for flexibility, scalability and resiliency to support current and future business needs of all the Blackline products in automated, repeatable way. You will also design, build, and maintain processes and components of a data pipeline to support analytics, focusing on data quality and governance, pipeline performance, and best practices for democratized data access. You will also collaborate and influence across partner teams on design and architecture with our IAC principles and make recommendations for improvements. If you're an expert in DevOps principles, Containers, Event driven technology, traditional data warehousing, ETL and/or big data pipeline and processing, you're exactly who we're seeking. Technical capabilities aside, if you're a self-starter who's comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big without overlooking minute details, and who thrives in a fast-paced environment, you're perfect for our team.

Requirements

10+ years of experience
Multiple years' experience working in the public Cloud AWS or GCP. (GCP preferred)
Expert in Kubernetes, experience in leveraging methods such as ArgoCD, Kustomize, and Falco.
Expert in cloud-first methodologies/technologies
Expert in DevOps flows including Jenkins, GitOps, Kubernetes, and Artifactory
Experience with Terraform/CloudFormation
Experience with generating IaC via tools such as Ansible.
Great interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to build strong relationships with cross functional IT teams.
A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ArgoCD
Experience with Backstage by Spotify
Experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and our internal ETL frameworks to automate tasks

Responsibilities

Design and build tools to democratize access to the cloud.
Templatize and orchestrate the public cloud to deliver easily consumable services.
Maintain platforms including Kubernetes, Kafka, and Airflow.
Use a security-first approach in designing architecture to ensure compliance and operational risk standards. (E.g. Network, firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency)
Work well with others including with the wider IT teams and business units.
Maintain high standards of documentation and adhere to processes and standards.