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Cloud Engineer Lead

allied worldWoodbridge Township, NJ

2 days ago

Occupations

Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsSoftware DevelopersComputer and Information Systems Managers

Industries

Computer Systems Design ServicesComputing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related ServicesSoftware Publishers
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About the role: We are looking for a hands-on AWS DevOps 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, DevOps, 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:
  • Leadership and vision
  • Define the vision, roadmap, and standards for AWS infrastructure, DevOps, 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, CloudWatch and CloudFormation.
  • 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 CloudFormation/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 FinOps practices.
  • DevOps, GitHub and CI/CDOwn GitHub administration: organizations, repositories, branching strategy, access controls and GitHub 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.
  • Cloud security
  • 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 GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, CloudTrail, Inspector, and WAF.Integrate DevSecOps practices into pipelines, including code, dependency, container and IaC scanning.
  • Support audits, compliance requirements and remediation of security findings.
  • Stakeholder partnership
  • 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 DevOps 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, CloudFormation, or CDK).Strong background in GitHub administration, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipeline design. Solid knowledge of AWS security services, IAM, and cloud security best practices. Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell. 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 FinOps 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 AWS, such as SageMaker, vector stores, and secure model access patterns. AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, Advanced Networking – Specialty, or Security – Specialty. Experience in regulated industries such as financial services or insurance. Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

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Experience level

Manager

Location

Woodbridge Township, NJ

Occupation

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

Industry

Computer Systems Design Services

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