Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Interested in building one of the largest Kubernetes deployments in the industry supporting Edge Computing use cases including Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in our 2,600+ North American restaurants? We are looking for an experienced, passionate, distributed systems software engineer who enjoys solving a wide range of cross-cutting technology challenges and building platforms that can sustain tremendous growth from our business. In this role you’ll serve as a leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained to the design, development, and delivery of a highly engineered and edge capable container management platform to run our critical APIs.Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.Provide technical knowledge and leadership for Engineering Leads in technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, edge computing, security, and microservicesBuild software delivery capabilities that will allow continuous delivery with low friction and low riskDefine and build solutions that are aligned with enterprise architecture principlesCollaborate heavily with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Site Reliability Engineering, and Engineering LeadsCollaborate with and oversee managed services providers responsible for various aspects of delivering the edge container management platform ecosystemIdentify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches that will address gaps in our container management platform ecosystemLead adoption of those technologies across all internal software engineering teams as they onboard to and operate on the container management platformOptimize our systems for security, performance, and costNote - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends and weeknights. The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours. Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical field of study, or equivalent work experience3+ years of experienceGood interpersonal and team collaboration skillsExcellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience with DevOps engineering best practices, including version control using GitHub and CI/CDUnderstanding of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShiftExperience with Kubernetes, Docker and GitOps in a production environmentExperience with full stack developmentExperience deploying and managing web services/APIsWeb, API and Event-based development experienceProficiency in GoLang, Python, or Java programming languagesProficiency navigating LinuxKnowledge and understanding of standard office suite solutions: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPointDemonstrated ability to influence teams and software engineersDemonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse group such as software engineers and business usersKnowledge and understanding of change management processesStrong oral and written communication skillsAbility to lead troubleshooting efforts, as necessaryAbility to review and analyze system performance and capacity reports for remediation purposesBachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or similar field of study5+ years of experienceExperience managing container platforms at Internet/Customer scaleExperience with ArgoCDDeep understanding of AWS architectureHands on experience managing Kubernetes AKS, EKS, K3S, and/or GKEExperience building and maintaining platform automation capabilities around KubernetesExperience with GitHub ActionsExperience designing and implementing high-availability application architecturesKubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)310%Bachelor's degree or equivalent experienceBachelor's DegreeEngineering or other technical field of studyNo

Created: 2026-03-07