Job Details

Job Title: Cloud Technical Lead

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the lifecycle management of released mobile applications including but not limited to testing mobile apps on new operating systems and devices, ensuring code reviews and security scans and risks mitigated, and configuring environment to support application specific and technical requirements as per business needs and implementing solutions
• Own platform stability and roadmap and delivery for improvements to:
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automation for infrastructure provisioning
• Monitoring and alerting automation
• Automation to build and deploy software applications to cloud, app stores, etc
• Platform scaling automation
• Progression to Continuous Integration to production including:
• Test automation (unit, integration, load, e2e, security)
• Ephemeral environments
• Branching strategy (gitops)
• Act as technical liaison and contributor to Chevron core Infrastructure and IT teams
• Participate in code/peer review for IaC and other CI/CD automation and documentation
• Accountable for technical documentation for internal teams
• Lead emergent issue investigations in logs for application, infrastructure, and ci/cd issues, root cause analysis, etc
• Evaluate and propose new tools and technologies to enhance to process and automation
• Evolve infrastructure security and implement industry best practices
• Ensure that software solution is leveraging established Chevron technology standards and collaborate with internal partners to develop new technology standards as needs arise.
• Design and develop data engineering, data integration and data management practices and tools
• Closely work with business partners to understand requirements and translate into technical requirements and define design and provide consulting, perform 3rd level design and support activities including mobile technologies, solutions, custom configurations and performance/troubleshooting for mobile platform
• Grow and mentor the team - provide technical guidance, leadership and expertise.
• Expertise with Azure Devops yaml pipelines, templates, and API
• Production experience with source control (git), IP networking, cloud storage, and data structures (SQL or NoSQL)
• Significant experience writing software to interact with cloud platform APIs for infrastructure provisioning (Azure ARM/REST API, Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc)

Required Qualifications:

Specialist Experience (one or more)

1. Lead role deploying and supporting software in production with Azure platform offerings, i.e. Azure app services, functions, SQL server, cache for redis, service bus, front door, application insights.
2. Expertise with Azure Devops yaml pipelines, templates, and API
3. Production experience with source control (git), IP networking, cloud storage, and data structures (SQL or NoSQL)
4. Significant experience writing software to interact with cloud platform APIs for infrastructure provisioning (Azure ARM/REST API, Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc)

Generalist Experience (all)

1. Software development - the applicant should have strong skills writing in at least one general purpose programming language (preferably several) and/or several domain specific languages relevant to cloud native application development.
2. Ansible automation experience - the applicant should have experience with deploying and maintaining Production systems in cloud or datacenter environments via Ansible automation.
3. Azure cloud PaaS experience - the applicant should have experience with the Azure cloud provider to the extent that they know about Azures PaaS offerings and the automation Azure provides to interact with those services.

CRITICAL SELECTION CRITERIA:

1. Technical Background - Recent experience in automation for cloud infrastructure provisioning, application development and operational support. Able to diagnose root causes to technical issues and resolve them by designing and deploying effective solutions. Identifies and applies system and process improvements.
2. Teamwork - Ability to work with a team toward a common goal, staying aligned with agreed strategies, priorities and processes to deliver results. Adapts to changing needs and priorities. Ability to work effectively with team members and customers across the globe.
3. Strong Oral and Written Communication, Presentation and Interpersonal skills - Communicates clearly and effectively with peers, management, and customers across disciplines and geographies. Proven ability to remain focused upon agreed deadlines and deliverables. Seeks to understand, educate and build collaborative relationships with business partners. Ability to relate to and work with a wide variety of stakeholders
4. Leadership skills - Demonstrated strategic thinking, influencing, problem solving and decision-making skills and takes ownership of issues and initiatives and works to resolution. Ability to plan, organize, coordinate work activities with across multiple teams and be successful at meeting deadlines and keeping projects on time. Work coordination in this space will often require managing tasks that span support groups, end users and vendors resources. Takes ownership of issues and initiatives and works to resolution.

Required Skills: Automation Azure C# SQL CI/CD Basic Qualification: They are looking for a Cloud Technical Lead. Must sit in Houston, TX or San Ramon, CA 2-3 days per week