AWS/Azure Cloud Platform Engineering Lead

Role & responsibilities :

• Design, implement, and support scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms across AWS and Azure, leveraging
• automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Develop platform tooling, integrations, self-service capabilities, APIs, dashboards, and automation solutions to improve
• operational efficiency, governance, visibility, and developer experience.
• Drive cloud optimization through monitoring, usage analytics, capacity management, forecasting, cost governance, and
• automated recommendations to maximize platform value and efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud platform architecture, engineering standards, and modernization initiatives while
• evaluating and adopting innovative technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and business outcomes.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

Enterprise CI/CD platform engineering.

Pipeline design.

Release automation.

Developer tooling.

Cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure as Code.

Access controls.

Observability.

Security and compliance.

Platforms and Tools:

GitHub/GitLab or equivalent.

Jenkins/Azure DevOps.

Artifact repositories.

Terraform/Ansible.

Scripting.

AWS services and monitoring platforms.

Leadership and Stakeholder Skills:

Strategic technical leadership.

Architecture governance.

Executive communication.

Cross-functional influence.

Roadmap ownership.

Risk-based decision-making.

Vendor management.

Coaching and capability development.

Preferred candidate profile :

Platform engineering.

Developer portals.

Policy as code.

Software supply-chain security.

Containers.

SRE.

And internal product management.

Education and Certifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical

experience. Relevant platform, cloud, security, ITIL, FinOps, or architecture certifications are preferred where applicable.

How Success Is Measured:

Availability and reliability.

Incident reduction and MTTR.

Security/compliance posture.

Automation and productivity gains.

Roadmap delivery.

Lifecycle currency.

Capacity or cost efficiency.

Documentation quality.

And stakeholder satisfaction.