Lead Cloud Engineer

Lead - Cloud Operations Engineer

Role overview

Lennar is a national home builder focused on delivering an exceptional experience for homeowners, communities, and associates. This role balances hands-on engineering with technical leadership across a hybrid cloud estate (AWS, Azure, and on-premises data centers). You will drive best practices in operations, automation, self-healing, disaster recovery, observability, and SLA/SLO governance for infrastructure and cloud workloads, and help lead cloud migration initiatives to modernize and consolidate environments.

Your Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical lead across the Cloud Operations portfolio (AWS & Azure), driving delegated initiatives to completion.
• Lead day-to-day operations, optimization, and incident response across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Plan and execute migrations of workloads from on-premises data centers and Azure into AWS as the primary cloud platform.
• Propose, design, and implement automation, self-healing, and auto-remediation to reduce manual toil and improve reliability.
• Architect and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, with version control and CI/CD delivered through Git Hub, Terraform, and Backstage.
• Design, document, and test disaster recovery, backup, failover, and business-continuity strategies across cloud and data center environments.
• Set and uphold server administration standards for Linux and Windows, including patching and lifecycle management.
• Oversee data center operations with a focus on storage, virtualization, and capacity management, supporting hybrid integrations with cloud platforms.
• Partner with security, platform, Dev Ex, and application teams to embed reliability, observability, governance, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and grow the team’s technical depth across cloud operations domains.
• Experience maintaining and improving Citrix and/or comparable DaaS solutions is a plus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud operations, infrastructure, or systems engineering, including hands-on work in AWS and Azure.
• Broad, hands-on expertise across multiple cloud operations domains: AWS and Azure;
  Linux and Windows server administration; patching; virtualization and storage; experience with database systems a plus (MSSQL/Postgres).
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and version control/CI-CD workflows in Git Hub.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automation, self-healing, and disaster recovery in production environments.
• Experience leading or supporting large-scale cloud migrations (data center and multi-cloud into a primary cloud platform).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Power Shell, Bash) for automation and integration.
• Strong communicator and mentor able to take delegated initiatives and lead them independently.
• Certifications (one or more preferred): AWS Solutions Architect – Professional;
  Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect Expert;
  Hashi Corp Certified:
  Terraform Associate.

Physical & Office/Site Presence Requirements

This is primarily a sedentary office position which requires the ability to operate computer equipment, speak, hear, bend, stoop, reach, lift, and move and carry up to 25 lbs. Finger dexterity is necessary.

This description outlines the basic responsibilities and requirements for the position noted. This is not a comprehensive listing of all job duties. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Life at Lennar

Lennar offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support health, financial security, and work-life balance. Benefits commonly include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid parental leave; education assistance; adoption assistance; vacation, holidays, sick leave, and personal days; and other programs to support associates and their families. Details are provided in Lennar’s benefits policies.

Lennar is an equal opportunity employer

and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment laws.