Cloud Platform Lead

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms.
• Define and execute cloud platform strategy across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Design standardized cloud infrastructure, landing zones, networking, identity, security, and governance frameworks.
• Build and maintain reusable platform capabilities that enable development and engineering teams to deploy applications efficiently.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code, automation, self-service infrastructure, and platform engineering practices.
• Manage Kubernetes, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native services.
• Establish cloud security, IAM, compliance, governance, and access-management standards.
• Implement monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and reliability practices across cloud platforms.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, infrastructure transformation, and platform optimization initiatives.
• Drive cloud cost optimization, resource utilization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, scalability, and business continuity of critical cloud services.
• Establish platform standards, architecture guidelines, operational processes, documentation, and best practices.
• Collaborate with application engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, data, and product teams to deliver platform capabilities.
• Evaluate new cloud technologies and services and recommend solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
• Manage cloud service providers, technology vendors, contracts, and service-level agreements where applicable.
• Lead, mentor, and develop cloud/platform engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership and communicate platform strategy, risks, costs, and performance to senior stakeholders.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on expertise with one or more major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms and infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, compute, storage, databases, load balancing, DNS, and connectivity.
• Experience building CI/CD platforms using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, containers, APIs, serverless technologies, and distributed systems.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with cloud migration, modernization, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, compliance, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Experience implementing cloud cost management and optimization practices, including FinOps.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder-management, and technical leadership skills.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline; M.Tech/MS/MCA is an advantage.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS/Azure/GCP, CKA/CKAD, Terraform, or FinOps are an advantage.