Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

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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 Type Script, Terraform, and Git Lab 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 Type Script, Terraform, and Git Lab CI/CD pipelines.

Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and reusable components using Terraform and Cloud Formation Stack Sets.

Build serverless automation frameworks leveraging Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge, and API Gateway.

Establish centralized logging, monitoring, and observability platforms using Cloud Watch 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.

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.

Deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, services, and architecture patterns.

Strong programming skills in Type Script for infrastructure automation and platform tooling.

Expert-level proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and state management.

Knowledge of Cloud Formation and Stack Sets for cross-account deployments.

Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge, and serverless architectures.

Proven expertise with API Gateway, Route
53, VPC, Cloud Watch, and S3.

Strong experience with Git Lab 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.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified Dev Ops 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 Guard Duty.

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 Fin Ops principles and cloud…