Key skills
Platform EngineeringCI/CD pipelinesCloud platformsContainerizationContainer OrchestrationKubernetes PackagingMarketplace deploymentSecurityTroubleshootingSoftware Development LifecycleBest PracticesValidationPerformance TestingCommunicationTeamworkAdaptabilityProblem-SolvingAILLMDatabricksAWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraformKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsHelmPostgresOracleElasticsearchGrafanaGitHubGitOpsPerformance OptimizationAgileCI/CDCollaboration
About this role
Clear Fracture is inventing new AI-driven data integration solutions, empowering organizations to utilize their data for informed decisions and more agile operations. We're looking for a highly skilled and motivated Platform Engineer to lead the cloud and on-prem deployment implementation of Clear Fracture's multi-agent data integration products.
Responsibilities:
- Platform deployment: building portable platform deployments for both online marketplace and fully disconnected, on-prem environments
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous delivery and improve code quality
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide feedback, and ensure product quality throughout the software development lifecycle
- Documentation: Create clear and concise documentation for deployment processes, especially for on-prem, disconnected environments
- Process Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform and DevOps processes, tools, and methodologies
Requirements:
- 4+ years of Platform Engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation, especially GitHub Actions to automate the code build, test, and deployment lifecycle
- Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Experience with Docker artifact management across a complex microservices application
- Experience using Helm Charts and/or Argo CD to manage multi-container deployments in both cloud and on-premises environments
- Experience packaging and distributing complex software products on Kubernetes, including creating deployment artifacts and distribution pipelines (not limited to running workloads)
- Experience provisioning applications for deployment in environments like the AWS Marketplace, especially more complex Kubernetes-based applications. Terraform experience is a plus
- Experience building security-hardened Kubernetes platforms for regulated or restricted environments
- Familiarity with GitOps practices and the ability to work with legacy codebases
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with a focus on system performance optimization
- Experience developing platforms using industry standards and repeatable processes to maintain project timelines and budgets
- Ability to review, test, and document platform and deployment functionality against design requirements
- Excellent communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders and capturing instructions and explanations in documents and presentations
- Proven ability to work effectively in remote team environments
- Commitment to continuous learning, adaptability to changing priorities, and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Experience with performance and load testing tools
- Active security clearance
- Master's degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science)
- Grafana or similar monitoring platform deployment and dashboard building
- Expertise in data integration platforms (e.g., Databricks, Oracle Data Flows, Informatica), database technologies (e.g., Postgres, Trino, SparkSQL), and search engines (e.g., ElasticSearch)
- Experience working deployments of AI systems, including locally provisioned/served LLM models