Cloud Engineer Lead Job Woodbridge Township area,New Jersey USA,IT/Tech

We are looking for a hands-on AWS Dev Ops Lead to own and evolve our cloud platform and lead a blended onsite and offshore team of 5-10 engineers. You will set the vision and roadmap for AWS infrastructure, Dev Ops, and CI/CD, while staying technical enough to design, build, and troubleshoot the platform yourself.

As part of the Platforms & Engineering team, you will partner with IT stakeholders to cloud-enable their systems, keep our AWS environment secure and well governed, and make sure the team delivers reliably. This role suits a leader who is equally comfortable whiteboarding a multi-account network design, reviewing a pipeline, and running a team stand-up.

Key responsibilities

Define the vision, roadmap, and standards for AWS infrastructure, Dev Ops, and CI/CD across the Platforms & Engineering team.
Lead, mentor and grow a team of 5-10 FTEs and contractors across onsite and offshore locations.
Plan and assign work, set priorities, track delivery and remove blockers so commitments are met on time.
Build a culture of automation, ownership, documentation and continuous improvement.
Manage contractor and vendor resources, including onboarding, quality of delivery and knowledge transfer.

AWS infrastructure and architecture

Design, build and maintain secure, scalable and cost-effective AWS environments using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, Cloud Watch and Cloud Formation.
Own the AWS network architecture: VPC design, subnets, routing, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, Private Link, Direct Connect / site-to-site VPN, DNS (Route 53), load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.
Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt and/or Cloud Formation/CDK) as the standard for all provisioning.
Hands-on experience authoring Terraform modules from scratch, not just consuming existing ones.
Lead multi-account strategy and governance using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and landing zone patterns.
Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and resilience of cloud workloads.
Monitor and optimize cloud spend through tagging, rightsizing and Fin Ops practices.

Dev Ops, Git Hub and CI/CD

Own Git Hub administration: organizations, repositories, branching strategy, access controls and Git Hub Actions.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that deliver fast, repeatable and secure releases.
Standardize build, test, deployment, and release practices across teams.
Implement observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response runbooks.
Embed security in every layer of the AWS platform, working with the Cybersecurity team.
Implement and manage IAM least-privilege, SCPs, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, Security Groups, and NACLs.
Use AWS security services such as Guard Duty, Security Hub, AWS Config, Cloud Trail, Inspector, and WAF.
Integrate Dev Sec Ops practices into pipelines, including code, dependency, container and IaC scanning.
Support audits, compliance requirements and remediation of security findings.
Work closely with IT stakeholders and application owners to migrate, cloud-enable, and support their systems on AWS.
Translate business and application needs into infrastructure designs, estimates, and delivery plans.
Communicate status, risks, and roadmap clearly to senior leadership and partner teams.

Required qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or Dev Ops engineering, with 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
3+ years leading technical teams, including managing contractors and onsite/offshore delivery.
Deep expertise in AWS networking: VPC design, Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity, DNS, and routing.
Strong hands-on experience with core AWS compute, storage, database, and serverless services.
Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt, Cloud Formation, or CDK).
Strong background in Git Hub administration, Git Hub Actions, and CI/CD pipeline design.
Solid knowledge of AWS security services, IAM, and cloud security best practices.
Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Power Shell.
Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS and/or EKS).
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Exposure to Fin Ops practices and cloud cost management tools.

Preferred qualifications

Experience with Amazon Bedrock and integrating generative AI services into enterprise platforms and applications.
Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure on…