Lead Cloud Platform Engineer
Geneva
Mission Control – IT Ops /
Employee / Full-Time /
On-site
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
The IT Operations team is looking for a passionate Lead Cloud Platform Engineer experienced in managing AWS cloud infrastructure and security and leading and expiring the team to top performance.
In this role, you will leverage your expertise to build and maintain IT Infrastructure and Security services in the cloud with focus on AWS, but also at Azure and GCP. This means implementing massively scalable services, automating all system operations, measuring, and continuously improving the services and cloud deployment processes.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Be the technical lead for the company’s AWS Organizations in the scope of infrastructure, network and security
- Design, deploy, and manage secure scalable and reliable services policies and standards
- Lead the extension of the cloud infrastructure network keeping it secure and ZTA compliant securing that the traffic is inspected, monitored and controlled
- Organize the cloud engineering squad's agenda, Jira project tasks and priorities aligned with the business needs
- Be the AWS Identity Access Management advisor and policy lead administrator
- Continuously and proactively enhance the architecture design and implementation, taking into account performance, disaster recovery, and costs
- Collaborate with various stakeholders (CIO, Data team, Release engineering, etc.) to make sure solutions fit into the Sonar ecosystem
- Own testability of the infrastructure (deploy, validate, tear-down)
- Take planned steps to ensure that all platforms and capabilities operate within a given region and account limits to ensure scalability
- Dedicate effort to improve resilience and scalability tests in performance environments to stay ahead of growth inhibitors
- Participate in AWS Well-Architected Reviews and Trusted Advisor findings resolution
- Document as-is and future state solutions to ensure evergreen documentation is maintained
- Document and share reusable building blocks
The Experience You Will Need:
- 5+ years of experience with AWS implementations and automating deployments
- Prod-oriented, AWS Cloud background, and belief in having DevOps profiles working together as a tightly-knit team
- AWS Solutions Architect certification with a similar level of expertise in Azure and GCP which is a big plus
- Solid experience with architecture: experience with delivering cloud-native applications, architecture modeling, and implementation on AWS
- Strong understanding of software development practices: quality, testing (unit, functional, and resilience), and CI/CD
- CompTIA Network+ certification or equivalent cloud or on-prem experience level in network concepts, implementation and operations
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CDK python library
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- With attention to detail, but also operating at scale you demonstrate analytical thinking to resolve problems
- Team player, receiving and giving feedback as well as sharing knowledge.
- Can-do attitude: challenging status quo, leading and contributing to key improvements and innovations.
- Motivated by both technical and functional aspects of services, you understand the value of code over presentations and see yourself as an engineer at heart
- Comfortable with agile practices and principles and to organize team work in sprints
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
