Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

IT platform engineer in microservices

In short

This senior IT platform engineer role at Boston Consulting Group in Lisbon focuses on developing and evangelizing a microservices platform used across the global firm, working closely with offshore teams in New Delhi. It requires 10+ years of AWS and microservices architecture experience, hands-on work with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Packer and CI/CD tools, plus strong stakeholder management and Agile experience. The company is a global strategy consulting firm, and the role sits within the cloud and platform engineering tribe, reporting to the infrastructure chapter lead.

About BCG
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation—inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
Responsibilities
Working as part of a global IT team, your role will be to develop a microservices platform for BCG. You will work closely with consumers of the platform to gather and implement feedback using best practices for DevSecOps. You should also be comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders to help present and evangelize the platform. BCG is a consensus culture and a key to success in this role will be the ability to engage staff, foster collaboration and partner with others in a way that supports and enables our business. As a senior member of the Squad within the cloud and platform engineering tribe you will report to the chapter lead for infrastructure and work closely with developers, testers and other teams across BCG to develop a microservices platform for BCG. Alongside other members of the team you will interact with business stakeholders to tailor the platform to meet their needs.
Requirements
•Resolving complex issues/problems and able to independently bring in the right resources at the right time to assist when necessary
•Consultative approach to working especially when interacting with team members and stakeholders, as you will need to possess the ability to influence direction, articulate risks and sell secure solutions/roadmaps
•Good at building and maintaining relationships with team members including team members located in different offices
•Used to working in Agile development teams
•Working with offshore development teams, as you will be based in Lisbon and you will be working with teams in New Delhi
•Being hands on and implementing solutions in multiple technologies such as Kubernetes, Python and Terraform
•10 years plus experience in AWS and microservices based architecture
•Hands on, low level AWS experience
•4 years plus experience with Docker and Kubernetes
•8 years plus experience with Jenkins/CircleCI/Octopus and other CI/CD tools
•4 years plus experience in Packer/Terraform
Nice to have
•AWS Certifications
•Application development experience
•Experience with Kubernetes addons, security, monitoring, scaling etc.
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.

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