Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering| July 2026
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive cloud infrastructure strategy, platform engineering, and large-scale migration programs across Azure and AWS environments. This role leads a team of senior engineers, sets technical direction for infrastructure automation, and partners with application teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and governed cloud platforms.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and mentor a team of senior and mid-level DevOps engineers across cloud migration and platform engineering workstreams.
- Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure automation, CI/CD maturity, and platform engineering practices.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews; set engineering standards, coding conventions, and IaC patterns.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with application, security, and product teams.
- Serve as the escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and migration blockers.
Cloud Migration (Azure & AWS)
- Plan, architect, and oversee end-to-end cloud migrations across Azure and AWS environments.
- Lead Tenant-to-Tenant migrations covering Azure AD, subscriptions, and workloads at enterprise scale.
- Define migration playbooks for lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecture patterns.
- Establish quality gates, rollback procedures, and post-migration stabilization frameworks.
- Optimize and standardize multi-cloud environments for cost, performance, and resilience.
Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
- Architect and govern enterprise-wide Terraform module libraries and IaC standards.
- Lead Terraform Enterprise (TFE) adoption, workspace governance, and platform migrations.
- Drive consistency in state management, module versioning, and pipeline integration.
- Review and approve IaC changes for security, compliance, and architectural alignment.
Platform Engineering & Governance
- Define platform engineering strategy: landing zones, multi-subscription/account architectures, and self-service provisioning.
- Implement guardrails and governance models using Azure Policy and AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs).
- Enforce security policies covering RBAC, IAM, and network controls.
- Enable platform teams to build and consume self-service infrastructure capabilities.
DevOps & CI/CD
- Design and govern CI/CD pipeline standards for application and infrastructure delivery.
- Champion GitOps principles for environment pipelines and deployment automation.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and reliability practices across cloud workloads.
- Identify and eliminate toil through automation and platform improvements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery
- Coordinate with senior leadership, application owners, and migration program managers on delivery timelines and risks.
- Produce and present architecture decisions, migration status updates, and platform roadmaps.
- Partner with onshore teams and client stakeholders across global time zones.
REQUIRED SKILLS
| Cloud Platforms | Azure and AWS (both mandatory) | Advanced |
| Migration Expertise | Tenant-to-Tenant, subscription, and workload migrations | Advanced |
| Infrastructure as Code | Terraform, including Terraform Enterprise (TFE) | Advanced |
| DevOps | CI/CD pipelines, Git, automation, GitOps | Advanced |
| Platform Engineering | Landing zones, Azure Policy, AWS SCPs, governance models | Advanced |
| Containers | Docker, Kubernetes (EKS / AKS) | Proficient |
| Scripting | Python and Bash | Proficient |
| Monitoring | Logs, metrics, alerting (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) | Proficient |
| Leadership | Team lead or tech lead with 3+ direct reports | Required |
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Terraform Enterprise (TFE) administration and migration initiatives.
- Multi-tenant architecture transformations at enterprise scale.
- Cloud FinOps and cost optimization practices.
- Experience with internal developer platforms such as Coder or Backstage.
- Kubernetes platform engineering: EKS, AKS, namespace governance, and policy enforcement.
- AWS or Azure professional-level certifications.
LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS
This is a lead role. Beyond technical execution, the ideal candidate drives team performance, raises the engineering bar, and connects infrastructure decisions to business outcomes.
- Builds and develops high-performing engineering teams; invests in career growth of direct reports.
- Communicates complex technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Operates with a bias toward action: ships working solutions before perfect ones.
- Holds technical quality standards without creating blockers for delivery.
- Proactively surfaces risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.