Lead, Platform Engineering

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WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a member of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group (AAG) you’ll join a talented team of diverse and inclusive analytic and engineering professionals who are dedicated to solving complex challenges for our clients. We work closely with our generalist consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.

WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

As a Lead, Platform Engineering you will design and build cloud-based distributed systems that solve complex business challenges for some of the world’s largest companies. You will draw on your deep software engineering, cloud engineering, and DevOps expertise to design and build technology stacks and platform components that enable cross functional AI Engineering teams to create robust, observable and scalable solutions. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Cloud solution and distributed systems architecture for full stack AI software and data solutions
• Collaborate closely with and influence general consulting teams to develop analytics solutions to client business problems, to prioritize and execute those solutions
• Defining and implementing scalable, observable, manageable, and self-healing cloud-based solutions across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
• Implementation, testing and management of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) of cloud-based solutions that may include CI/CD, data integrations, APIs, web and mobile apps, and AI solutions
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the establishment and enforcement of coding standards and best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable code
• Utilize Kubernetes and containerization technologies to deploy, manage, and scale analytics applications in cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance and availability
• Develop and maintain APIs and microservices to expose analytics functionality to internal and external consumers, adhering to best practices for API design and documentation
• Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and organizational policies
• Continuously monitor and troubleshoot application performance, identifying and resolving issues that impact system reliability, latency, and user experience
• Influence, educate and directly support the platform  engineering capabilities of our clients
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, data analysis, and software engineering, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the analytics platform
• Travel is required (30%)

ABOUT YOU:

• Proven experience as a cloud engineer and software engineer within either/or product engineering or professional services organizations
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 5 years minimum experience
• 3+ years at Senior or Staff level, or equivalent

Technical Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience designing and delivering cloud-based distributed solutions GCP, AWS, or Azure certifications are a plus
• Experience building infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform (preferred), Cloud Formation, Pulumi, AWS CDK, CDKTF, etc.
• Experience building backend APIs, services and/or integrations with Python
• Deep familiarity with nuances of software development lifecycle
• One or more configuration management tools: Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef
• One or more monitoring and analytics platforms: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, SumoLogic, NewRelic, DataDog, CloudWatch, Nagios/Icinga
• CI/CD deployment pipelines (e.g. Github Actions, Jenkins, Travis CI, Gitlab CI, Circle CI)
• Practitioner experience with Kubernetes through services like GKE, EKS or AKS is a benefit 
• Experience implementation of large-scale structured or unstructured databases, orchestration and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or Terraform
• Experience with workflow orchestration such as dbt, Beam, Airflow, Luigy, Metaflow, Kubeflow, or any other 
• Use Git as your main tool for versioning and collaborating
• Exposure to LLMs, Prompt engineering, Langchain a plus
• Strong knowledge in designing API interfaces 
• Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance
• Knowledge of  data architecture, database schema design, database scalability
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies and principles 

Interpersonal Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technicalities of solutions, algorithms and techniques with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
• Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
• Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams