Technical Lead, Cloud Platform Engineer (Civil Aviation)

The role

You will own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a cloud platform supporting mission-critical aviation systems. You will lead a small team while building and operating infrastructure that scales globally and maintains ~99.99% availability.

What you will do

• Define and drive platform architecture
• Establish best practices for infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes-based systems, deployment pipelines, and production operations
• Own reliability end-to-end by designing for failure and implementing observability
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
• Manage and develop a small team of engineers
• Set clear direction and establish high standards
• Create systems that enable teams to operate autonomously
• Lead design reviews and make architectural decisions in distributed environments

Required qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating highly reliable cloud platforms
• Deep expertise in AWS with understanding of multi-region and highly available architectures
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with progressive delivery techniques
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring systems such as Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience leading small teams for 1-2+ years
• Ability to own platform architecture end-to-end
• Proven track record of driving reliability culture and production excellence
• Experience operating and supporting 24/7 production systems
• Proficient in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality

Nice to have

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

Before you apply

• ASI works with export-controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data
• Contracts mandate U.S. immigration status and location restrictions for performing personnel
• Employment offers are contingent on ability to timely obtain all required authorizations

About the company

ASI is a frontier AI company that dynamically orchestrates critical infrastructure and defense assets. The company is headquartered in Boston with offices in Washington, DC, Denver, and Europe.