Senior Lead Engineer - Cloud Platform, DevOps & Site Reliability

Job Summary Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for highly scalable cloud-native platforms and services.
• Drive strategic initiatives focused on reliability, performance, security, automation, and operational excellence.
• Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and technology evaluations.
• Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, fostering engineering excellence and best practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to define long-term platform and infrastructure roadmaps.

Cloud Platform Engineering

• Architect, develop, and operate cloud infrastructure across Azure and/or AWS environments.
• Define infrastructure standards and governance through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and platform optimization initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure costs through FinOps principles and resource governance.

DevOps Automation

• Drive CI/CD strategy and platform engineering initiatives across multiple products.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Promote automation-first approaches for infrastructure provisioning, remediation, testing, and operational workflows.
• Champion GitOps, configuration management, and infrastructure automation practices.

Reliability, Performance Scalability

• Lead capacity planning, scalability assessments, performance benchmarking, and load testing activities.
• Drive root cause analysis and preventive actions for production issues.
• Conduct chaos engineering exercises to improve system resilience.
• Establish performance and reliability standards across engineering teams.

Collaboration Communication

• Work closely with engineering leadership, architects, product teams, and customers to align technology solutions with business objectives.
• Communicate technical strategies, risks, operational status, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Influence organizational best practices for cloud operations, security, and software delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale cloud platform or infrastructure initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering teams and driving technical strategy.

Technical Requirements Cloud Technologies

• Expert-level experience with Azure and/or AWS.
• Deep understanding of compute, networking, storage, identity, security, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

Containerization Platform Engineering

• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and cloud-native ecosystems.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Experience building multi-cluster and multi-region deployment architectures.

Infrastructure as Code Automation

• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Strong automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience implementing GitOps using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

CI/CD DevOps

• Extensive experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.
• Expertise in deployment automation, release management, and software delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, DevSecOps, and shift-left practices.

Observability Reliability

• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog.
• Experience defining and implementing SLI/SLO frameworks.
• Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational excellence mindset.

Systems Networking

• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals, DNS, load balancing, CDN, network security, and distributed systems.
• Experience with large-scale production environments supporting mission-critical workloads.

Databases Distributed Systems

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of distributed systems design, scalability patterns, caching, messaging, and event-driven architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in large-scale SaaS, IoT, Telecom, CPS, or distributed cloud platforms.
• Experience building highly available global services supporting millions of users/devices.
• Knowledge of FinOps methodologies and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with security compliance frameworks and cloud governance.
• Azure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS Professional, Kubernetes