Technical Lead, Cloud Platform Engineer

About the Company

ASI's mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure domains. Backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners, ASI delivers operational decision superiority—compressing days of analysis into seconds of action.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a cloud platform supporting mission-critical aviation systems
• Lead a small team while remaining deeply hands-on building and operating infrastructure
• Define and drive platform architecture and establish best practices for infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes-based systems
• Own reliability end-to-end, including designing for failure and implementing observability
• Manage and develop a small team of engineers by setting direction and establishing high standards
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating highly reliable cloud platforms (~99.99% uptime)
• Deep expertise in AWS with multi-region and highly available architectures
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm)
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for safe production releases
• Hands-on experience with progressive delivery techniques like canary deployments
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring systems (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience leading small teams for 1-2+ years while remaining hands-on
• Proven track record of driving reliability culture and production excellence
• Experience operating and supporting 24/7 production systems
• Ability to lead design reviews and make architectural decisions in distributed environments
• Proficiency in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FedRAMP High environments or other regulated cloud systems
• Exposure to high-availability systems with "four nines" reliability