Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

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Position Purpose:

Leads the Cloud Platform Engineering team to design, build, and automate foundational AWS infrastructure and platform services across a multi-account AWS Landing Zone environment. Guides the team in developing scalable, secure automation solutions using TypeScript, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD. Champions infrastructure-as-code best practices, platform standardization, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud environments. Drives platform innovation while ensuring governance, compliance, and reliability across hundreds of AWS child accounts.

• Lead and mentor a team of Cloud Platform Engineers, establishing standards and best practices for AWS platform automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Architect and automate AWS Landing Zone infrastructure using AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and Service Control Policies across large-scale multi-account environments.
• Design and implement platform automation solutions using TypeScript, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and reusable components using Terraform and CloudFormation StackSets.
• Build serverless automation frameworks leveraging Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and API Gateway.
• Establish centralized logging, monitoring, and observability platforms using CloudWatch and related AWS services.
• Create self-service platform capabilities and standardized infrastructure patterns for application teams.
• Collaborate with Security, Network, and Application teams to ensure platform security, compliance, and operational resilience.
• Establish disaster recovery strategies, backup automation, and business continuity planning for platform services.
• Evaluate and implement emerging AWS services and cloud-native technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud migration projects and infrastructure modernization efforts.
• Ensure compliance with internal governance standards, regulatory requirements, and AWS best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education/Experience:

A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and requires 5 – 7 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

• Deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, services, and architecture patterns.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript for infrastructure automation and platform tooling.
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and state management.
• Knowledge of CloudFormation and StackSets for cross-account deployments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and serverless architectures.
• Proven expertise with API Gateway, Route53, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3.
• Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure automation pipelines.
• Proven leadership and team management capabilities with ability to mentor and develop engineers.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, and compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• Experience with additional programming languages (Python, Go) for automation.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager, Config, Security Hub, and GuardDuty.
• Experience with AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, and multi-account Landing Zone architectures.
• Experience operating platform infrastructure supporting large numbers (100+) of AWS child accounts.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace).
• Understanding of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies.
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