Lead Platform Engineer (AWS)

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer with skills in AWS, and experience of running public infrastructure to support and operate complex hybrid environments for large enterprises.

We like people who get involved in all levels of technical discussions, from architecture to hands on coding. You will join a friendly, highly-collaborative team to support major enterprise customers, receiving immediate access to the latest certifications and world-class training schemes!

Learn more about Rackspace Managed Cloud (RMC) here

On-call: You will join a weekly rota and can expect to be on-call roughly once every 6 weeks (on-call bonus provided).

Work location: Remote (you must live in Poland).

Contract type: UoP only.

Primary Objectives

• Design and deliver innovative Proof of Concepts for customers
• Deliver high-quality work to customers as part of consulting engagements that can be delivered through workshops and solutions architecture designs.
• Client-facing consultancy experience within large enterprises, but happy to deliver to SMBs
• Lead critical deployments and align with the needs of the customer
• Ensure high quality delivery of the cloud service from the technical perspective
• Contribute to RFI/RFP requests
• Identify and drive technical/deployment improvements
• Consult with our customer’s individual AWS project teams regarding architecture, compliance, and all other requirements
• Enable the DevOps projects for successful production state
• Collect ideas from the projects and feed back to Cloud Management Office and architecture management
• Identify possible risks in the projects’ deployments and help mitigate them without direct technical hands-on
• Lead technical root cause analysis
• Create direct value for the individual projects, not slideware 
• Manage production change approval process 

Job Requirements:

• You have built specialist and demonstrable architectural knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Cloud platform architecture, Cloud-native application architecture (including DevOps and CI/CD)Enterprise and business architecture, Security and governance.
• You should have demonstrable knowledge on AWS Landing Zone framework with experience in design and delivery of centralized AWS services.
• Experienced in writing design documents and collecting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience in deploying and configuration of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in multi account/subscription IaC structures
• Practical experience in DevOps and SysOps model
• You work in a joint team with the customer’s IT, Amazon Web Services ProServ and Rackspace with a high degree of mutual respect and cooperation
• Be a technical ambassador between the customer's Cloud Management Office and Rackspace PS service delivery
• AWS Solution Architect certification is highly preferred

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.