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Job Summary

The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will take charge of the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company's cloud platform infrastructure. The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will provide technical leadership, guidance to engineering team, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

+ Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the company's platform infrastructure using cloud services and automation tools

+ Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment

+ Collaborate with software engineering and security teams to define platform requirements and ensure compliance with best practices

+ Drive architectural decisions and implement solutions that ensure scalability, performance, and security

+ Monitor and optimize the platform's health, performance, and cost-efficiency, making proactive recommendations for improvement

+ Develop and maintain automated processes for deploying, testing, and monitoring the platform

+ Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues with the platform infrastructure, including network, storage, and compute resources

+ Keep informed of industry trends, emerging technologies and their potential impact or benefit to platform

+ Evaluate and champion infrastructure technologies, tools, and services to improve platform performance, scalability, and reliability

+ Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritize platform roadmap and initiatives

+ Document knowledge articles and work instructions

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

+ Experienced gained through college degree programs and or certifications in Computer Science, Information Technology or related fields.

+ 5-7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related field

+ Strong experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar)

+ Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)

+ Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)

+ Proven experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers

+ Expert-level knowledge of networking, security, and system administration concepts

+ Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

+ Excellent communication and collaboration skills

+ Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment

+ Strong organizational and project management skills

Key Metrics

+ Certifications at the Professional level

+ System availability

+ Process compliance

+ Data availability

+ Data quality

+ Agile delivery proficiency

+ Ticket volumes and trending

+ Need in depth understanding and implementation experience of service mesh.

+ Experience with self managed implementation of data engineering tools for workflow orchestration (Airflow, Kubeflow etc.)

+ Strong experience with implementation and solutioning of DevOps based automation tools ( Jenkins, GitLab etc.)

+ Strong experience implementing and migrating AWS databases (Aurora Global DB cluster, Postgres RDS or similar)

+ Need strong knowledge on Vulnerability management (Image scanning, Ivanti, sentinel)

+ Proven experience with solutioning GitOps declarative tools for Continuous delivery in Kubernetes such as ArgoCD.

+ Strong knowledge and implementation experience of infrastructure monitoring tools such as Signoz

+ Knowledge of implementing APIs for Secret management (Fast API etc.)

+ Experience of creating custom AMIs for AWS or Azure by implementing tools such as Packer

+ Experience in solutioning multi region AWS infrastructure deployment.

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Job Family

Information Technology

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

Texas

_We are a company of people committed to: Exceeding Customer Expectations, Great People, Teamwork, Competitive Spirit and Effective Communication. If this describes you, then apply today!_

_If you currently work for Vistra or its subsidiaries, please apply via the internal career site._

It is the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects of employment, including in selection for job opportunities, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance submitting an application or would like to request an accommodation, please email us** **at [email protected] to** **make a request.

Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine.

Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country. Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources, operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of solar facilities.

Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and takes an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail, offering solutions to meet customers’ needs, including more than 50 renewable energy plans. Through its family of retail brands, Vistra serves approximately 5 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers.

As a leader in the responsible transformation of the country’s energy supply, Vistra has made significant progress towards its 2030 and 2050 targets. The company has committed to a 60% reduction of Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, as compared to our 2010 baseline, and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, assuming necessary technological advancements and public policy incentives are achieved. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company’s sustainability report at https://vistracorp.com/sustainability/ .

Vistra’s hardworking team is committed to its purpose, “lighting up lives, powering a better way forward” and is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about how Vistra is powering a better way forward at vistracorp.com (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3967404-1&h=3533293724&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vistracorp.com%2F&a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vistracorp.com) .

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_It is the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects of employment, including in selection for job opportunities, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws._

If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance submitting an application or would like to request an accommodation, please email us at [email protected] to make a request.