Advanced Software Engr

• Proven experience as an Edge/Cloud Architect/Developer — designing systems for distributed/edge computing environments

• Strong hands-on expertise with Ansible (playbooks, roles, automation at scale)

• Expert-level Python development skills

• Deep, production-grade experience with Kubernetes (cluster design, operators, networking, security, troubleshooting)

• Hands-on experience with Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) or comparable distributed cloud/edge platforms

• Practical IoT experience (device management, connectivity protocols, telemetry/data pipelines)

• Experience acting as a lead/principal architect, including running or contributing to architecture review processes

• Experience with observability/monitoring tooling for distributed systems (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

• Strong communication skills — able to work with distributed teams and represent architecture decisions to stakeholders

• Ability to translate complex business, product, and infrastructure requirements into pragmatic technical designs, roadmaps, and implementation plans

• Experience establishing engineering best practices for CI/CD, secure software delivery, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability, and operational excellence

Nice to Have

• Experience with edge security and zero-trust patterns

• Background in a regulated or industrial IoT domain (manufacturing, telecom, energy, etc.)

• Prior experience standing up a new architecture practice or Center of Excellence (COE)

• Experience with developer portals, golden paths, service catalogs, internal platforms, or Backstage-style enablement experiences

• Cloud certifications or architecture credentials across Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, or related platform technologies