1 day ago
Austin, TX, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$132k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build internal platform capabilities, self-service workflows, templates, and reusable components for application teams.
- Automate cloud foundations, CI/CD, secrets management, container platforms, network services, provisioning, configuration, and deployment operations.
- Support production-grade Kubernetes and multi-cloud landing zones across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Create developer enablement resources including documentation, reference architectures, golden paths, and platform tooling.
- Build observability into platform services and participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with SRE, Security, product owners, and engineering teams to shape platform strategy and resolve systemic delivery bottlenecks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience; alternatively, a Master’s degree may qualify with fewer years of experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or a related discipline, with the stated bachelor’s/master’s experience alternatives.
- Proven experience building internal platforms, automation frameworks, or developer tooling in production environments.
- Experience with multi-cloud and/or enterprise-scale infrastructure environments.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, cloud-native architectures, AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, deployment automation, secrets management, artifact management, and infrastructure provisioning tools.
- Strong scripting or programming skills for automation and platform development, plus knowledge of observability, reliability, and operational readiness practices.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with internal developer platforms, IDPs, golden paths, self-service portals, platform APIs, Cloud Centers of Excellence, FinOps, GreenOps, cloud governance, policy-as-code, and service catalogs.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based in Austin, Texas, supporting a multi-cloud environment; travel is required at least twice per year.
- Full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and eligible dependents receive health, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life, disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance options.
- Retirement savings plan is available after 30 days with company contributions and matching and no vesting period.
- Company-paid holidays, paid time off, life insurance, AD&D, disability coverage, an employee assistance plan, and a well-being program are provided.
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About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.