Lead Cloud Engineer

Lead Engineer - Target India

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product.
You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.

As a Lead Engineer on the Cloud Enablement team, you'll take the lead as you:

• Deploy, manage, and support cloud infrastructure solutions using Cloud services, particularly Google Cloud, with a strong focus on cloud networking.

• Implement best practices for cloud resource provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and security.

• Develop and maintain cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools to automate deployment and configuration tasks.

• Drive continuous improvement through the adoption of automation and orchestration.

• Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain.

• Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.

• Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level.

• In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.

• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.

• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.

• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.

• Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles.

• Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met.

• Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems.

• Stay current with Target's technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 9+ years of software development, cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience with a focus on cloud services

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding cloud platforms, including account/project management, compute, storage, databases, networking, serverless, IAM, security, observability, and cost management

• Experience using IaC tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar technologies

• Experience developing APIs, automation, and operational tooling using GoLang, Python, and Bash scripting

• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and managed Kubernetes platforms such as GKE

• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Operations, Splunk, Datadog, or similar

• Familiarity with various Linux distributions, virtual machines, containers, networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud-native runtime environments

• Communicates and coordinates effectively with project teams, application teams, partners, and stakeholders

• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, reliability, scalability, security, and operational health

• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems, internal developer platforms, automation frameworks, or shared cloud platform services

Experience Level

Senior Level