Platform Engineering Lead
Aon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇷🇼 Rwanda
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudMicroservicesOracle
About the role
- Lead the software architecture and software development across ALU’s platforms (Salesforce, AWS, Oracle NetSuite and others).
- Remains an active technical contributor through hands-on coding, architecture design and perform code reviews to ensure technical excellence and scalability.
- Design scalable, modular system architectures, including microservices-based approaches where appropriate.
- Establish and manage stable environments for development, QA and production; ensuring reliable deployment pipelines and traceability.
- Optimize and secure API and cloud infrastructure, implementing robust monitoring, observability, and documentation standards.
- Reduce technical debt by establishing consistent build pipelines, version control practices and enforcing unit & regression testing before production releases.
- Collaborate across vendors and internal teams to standardize code quality, enforce DevOps practices (CI/CD, automated testing, environment parity), and align technical workflows.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to product teams; setting the bar for quality and security.
- Ensure technology choices balance scale, flexibility and cost-efficiency.
Requirements
- 9+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps or full-stack software development
- Salesforce and AWS certifications preferred (or equivalent demonstrated expertise)
- Proven experience as the technical lead or principal engineer in environments where you set standards and guided teams
- Hands-on experience in API design, CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure management, with version control and collaboration using Git and Jira.
- Strong experience with AWS, Oracle NetSuite, or similar enterprise platforms
- Proficient in setting up and managing secure, scalable development environments and automation pipelines
- Strong grasp of software architecture, including monolith-to-microservice transitions
- Experience working with external vendors and ensuring delivery quality across multiple partners
- Full-stack development experience a plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive safeguarding policy
- Zero-tolerance approach to any violation of safeguarding
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software architectureAPI designCI/CD pipelinescloud infrastructure managementversion controlmicroservicesunit testingregression testingfull-stack developmentautomation pipelines
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationquality assuranceproblem-solvingteam guidancestandardizationflexibilitycost-efficiency
Certifications
Salesforce certificationAWS certification