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Lead Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Engineer
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A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$161,754 / year median in California
Job Description
Lead Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Engineer at
TEKGENCE INC
Lead Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Engineer at
TEKGENCE INC
in Los Altos, California Posted in about 11 hours ago.
Type:
full-time
Job Description:
Core Platform Engineer (L1, breadth-first) Sunnyvale, CA or San Jose, CA (5 days Onsite, Final round F2F) Contract & FTE (Both)
Job Description:
- The engineering first line of defense: incident response, triage, reliability, and automation across the full infrastructure stack.
Day-to-day:
Runs incident response drills, post-mortems, and root cause analysis; learns from past incidents to prevent recurrence. Starts the day reviewing overnight alerts and system performance metrics, triaging anomalies. Participates in team stand-ups on projects, incidents, and daily priorities. Automates routine processes, analyzes system logs, and builds tools to strengthen monitoring. Works alongside software engineers advising on resilient-code best practices and reviewing changes pre-deployment. Maintains high SLIs/SLOs; documents work and shares insights with a customer-centric mindset.
Must have:
Architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems. Incident command experience - driving RCA, coordinating cross-functional teams, ensuring corrective-action follow-through. Observability built from the ground up - defining SLOs/SLIs, closing monitoring gaps, alerting strategies that catch failures before customers do. Linux kernel internals - scheduler, memory allocation, driver subsystems. High-quality code in at least one language (Python, Go, or similar). System-level debugging - kdump, kernel panic analysis. IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes) and CI/CD (GitLab CI, AWX, etc.) for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure. TCP/IP and network programming. Distributed storage systems - object, block, and/or file storage paradigms. Strong communication skills.
Nice to have:
Hardware and GPU troubleshooting. OVN/OVS-based networking stack exposure.
Direct:
469-421-5604 , Ext- 218
• nitesh.j@tekgence.com
Linkedin:
linkedin.com/in/nitesh-ch-a378b5222 6655 Deseo Dr, Suite 104,Irving, TX , 75039
• www.tekgence.com