We have a sign on our wall as constant reminder to work hard, stay disciplined
and deliver awesome software for our customers. We also want our team to love
to come to work! We encourage that through great people, a fantastic
collaborative team environment, constant innovation with new technology and
processes, flexible schedules, great office space, weekly happy hours, free
parking, and much, much more. Ready to go? We are!

  

 **Job Description**

You will be an integral part of a software delivery feature team in a fast
moving, outcome-oriented company. Our teams are agile, automated and delivery
focused. To be a part of a Kingsmen team, you need to love delivering
software. In our software delivery model, the Cloud Engineer

  

Team Lead joins our proven, high-caliber team to maintain and improve
infrastructure. The mission of this role is to work with our customers, create
solutions with our architects, guide their team, plan, model, design, review
code, test, provide transparency and continuously improve. If you love
delivering software and are up to the challenge, then we would love to hear
from you!

  

  

 **Responsibilities Include**

  * Contribute to infrastructure improvements, architecture, development, and deployment in a cloud environment
  * Standardize, develop and maintain common development tools and infrastructure, such as CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, infrastructure provisioning, config management, etc.
  * Create infrastructure as code to dynamically provision to manage infrastructure
  * Work with other engineering teams to identify and implement infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring etc. improvements
  * Participate in an environment that emphasizes trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort
  * Participate in on-call rotation with other team members (~1 week / month)
  * Participate in initial work item assessments
  * Maintain delivery pace of the contracted number of points release over release
    * Manage client expectations for output based on contract, team capacity, and work schedule
    * Provide capacity to achieve contracted output when necessary
  * Maintain or improve software quality iteration over iteration
    * Model technical environment (domain, use case, system interaction, static structure, data, component, etc.)
    * Provide guidance for the right level of testing for the solution and integration with CI/CD
    * Interact with internal architecture and engineering as well as client architecture and engineering to stay within guardrails, principles and technical platform constraints
  * Manage cost per story point
    * Modelled cost reviews monthly
    * Actual cost reviews monthly (looking to stay within +/- 3% of model)
  * Manage program consistency iteration over iteration
    * Accurate and predictable size estimates (+/- 10% of features and functions)
    * Routines are followed
    * CI/CD pipeline is visualized, all appropriate components are used
    * Data are correct and reportable via Kingsbook/iteration reporting platforms
  * Build, lead, mentor, and provide growth opportunities to team members
    * Bi-weekly/monthly check-ins
    * Performance feedback
    * Compensation input
    * Involvement in creating reqs based on need, recruiting integration, interview process and hiring
    * Capacity management: Allocations, PTO, work week

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Required Skills and Experience**  

  * Minimum 2+ years' experience in Software Development or System Administration
  * Minimum of 2 years of experience in Cloud infrastructure, Micro-service architectures, Operations or DevOps roles
  * Hands-on experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, etc.
  * Proficiency in Windows Server and Linux server administration
  * Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.
  * Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure
  * Amazon AWS cloud services such as EC2, S3, RDS etc.
  * Azure Cloud services such as Azure AD, Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Virtual Networking
  * Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms like Jenkins
  * Well-versed with security best practices in cloud-based environments
  * Experience with version control tools like GitHub and Gitlow to manage a scheduled release cycle
  * Experience with Infrastructure as Code approaches and technologies such as Terraform, Amazon CloudFormation, etc.
  * Experience with APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, etc.
  * Ability to perform reverse-engineering of existing infrastructure and provide documentation
  * Understanding of software engineering principles
  * Experience with application architecture, software design and design patterns
  * Experience modeling software solutions with standard notations such as the UML
  * Experience with testing sophisticated software solutions
  * Experience with agile program and project management techniques and tools
  * Experience with information security and data privacy requirements and implementations 
  * Experience with requirements management and modeling
  * Experience with customer relationship management
  * Experience with organizational behavior and alignment
  * Experience growing, mentoring and developing teammates

  

**Preferred Skills and Knowledge**

  * Work with cross functional team to recognize requirements and recommend solutions
  * Ability to influence others, build relationships, manage conflicts, and handle negotiations
  * Self-starter that wants the freedom to work in an environment with ambiguous and evolving specifications
  * Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
  * AWS, or Azure, or GCP certification(s)
  * Knowledge of contemporary observability approaches and best practices
  * Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and best practices

  

**The Kingsmen Software Stack**

View our entire stack on Stackshare: [https://stackshare.io/kingsmen-
software/kingsmen-software](https://stackshare.io/kingsmen-software/kingsmen-
software)

