Lead Cloud Engineer

Join our India Tech Hub – Be among the first hires!  Kobie, a 35-year veteran of the loyalty industry, a multi-year Forrester Leader, and USA Top Workplace is expanding its global footprint by establishing a Tech Hub in India. Kobie partners with global brands to build deep connections with their customers through personalized, data-driven loyalty experiences and has a mission of growing enterprise value through loyalty. The Tech Hub will serve as a Global Capabilities Center for a broad range of technology roles, and this is your chance to play a pivotal role in shaping our presence in India. Join us as we continue to lead in loyalty, delivering innovative customer experiences for some of the world’s most recognized brands while working alongside some of the best and brightest in loyalty.  About the team and what we will build together The Kobie Engineering Team is a diverse group of individuals belonging to teams including DevOPS Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and System Administration. The overall goal of our team is to bridge the gap between different organizational units creating a collaborative environment where all teams are working together to benefit the organization and our various technology platforms.  Additionally, we strive for excellence in delivering business needs to the organization in reliable and repeatable fashion in order to maximize our impact to the business bottom line. How you will make an impact As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will work closely with development and operations teams to ensure that our systems are scalable, reliable, and highly available. You will also be responsible for mentoring and training junior and mid-level engineers, and for driving the adoption of best practices and automation across the organization. Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve software delivery processes Monitor and troubleshoot and implement automation allowing the self healing of production systems to ensure optimal performance Lead the planning and implementation of automation designs and strategy to improve efficiency and reliability of our systems Understand and translate the business vision into technical roadmaps used to improve our infrastructure and deployment processes, identifying areas for optimization, cost savings, feature improvements, etc Evaluate current technology trends and make recommendations to the business for improvements and adoption Mentor and train junior and mid-level engineers Drive the adoption of best practices and automation across the organization Provide technical leadership and support to development and IT teams as needed What you need to be successful We are looking for six or more years of experience in the following areas: Mastery of automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar Strong knowledge of programming concepts and design architecture in one or more languages Extensive experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef Extensive knowledge with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes Strong Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Prometheus, ELK stack, or similar Strong Cloud infrastructure experience and certifications with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP Excellent communication and collaboration skills