4 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and govern GitOps release processes using Argo CD, including branching, versioning, promotion workflows, guardrails, and documentation.
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines integrating builds, linting, testing, DevSecOps scanning, and Argo CD delivery.
- Automate repository and pull request workflows using gitStream and maintain branching and release-versioning strategies.
- Build self-service paved-road templates, platform tooling, and documentation while measuring internal developer adoption.
- Create, prioritize, and delegate platform backlog work and support agile delivery practices, with an opportunity to serve as Scrum Master.
- Design Terraform modules, state management, and multi-environment infrastructure patterns.
- Contribute to EKS cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, autoscaling, add-on management, and upgrades in multi-tenant environments.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and secure-by-default delivery patterns.
- Communicate release plans and delivery health, author technical design documents, and drive standards adoption across teams.
- Mentor engineers, participate in interviews, maintain runbook standards, and lead resolution of release and pipeline incidents.
- Participate in required on-call coverage, including potential 24/7 coverage.
Requirements
- 7+ years of IT-related experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Applied Mathematics, or Engineering, or 10+ years without a degree.
- 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production, including hands-on EKS cluster lifecycle and multi-environment operations.
- Proven experience designing and governing GitOps release processes, branching strategies, multi-environment promotion, and release versioning or tagging.
- Advanced CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools, including build, linting, testing, DevSecOps, and Argo CD integration.
- Strong Terraform expertise covering module development, state management, and multi-environment patterns.
- Strong AWS expertise across networking, IAM, and the EKS ecosystem.
- Experience driving technical standards and adoption across teams without direct authority.
- Strong Linux and distributed-systems troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes, networking, and AWS.
- Experience with Helm or Kustomize, Kubernetes networking fundamentals, and Cilium.
- Clear written and verbal communication across engineering and leadership audiences.
- Platform product thinking and experience treating developer experience as a product with measurable outcomes.
- Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS, and/or AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect certification are highly desired.
- Experience leading agile or Scrum delivery, Scrum Master experience, Scrum certification, repository automation, automated release/versioning tools, Karpenter, Kyverno, Crossplane, or self-service paved-road platform capabilities are highly desired.
Benefits
- Full-time onsite work in San Diego, California, five days per week.
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and personal well-being.
- The role is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
- Required on-call participation, including potential 24/7 coverage.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.