Cloud Operations Lead SRE DevOps Platform Engineering

912 Years

Overlap with US & EU Business Hours

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Operations Lead with a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) DevOps and Platform Engineering. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability security and operational excellence of cloud-based platforms and services while leading a small team of engineers.

This is a hands-on role with approximately 80% focus on Cloud Operations Production Support Reliability and Platform Ownership combined with leadership responsibilities.

• Lead cloud operations and production support activities across AWS-based platforms.
• Manage and troubleshoot Linux systems cloud infrastructure networking and Kubernetes environments.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring observability automation and incident management.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Ansible and Helm.
• Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Jenkins and deployment automation tools.
• Design and implement monitoring alerting dashboards runbooks and operational standards.
• Lead vulnerability remediation secrets management access governance and platform hardening initiatives.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning OS/AMI upgrades and day-2 operational activities.
• Support production deployments release management and change control processes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on onboarding platform readiness access management and operational best practices.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers while driving continuous service improvement.

• Strong Linux Administration and Troubleshooting
• AWS Cloud Operations (IAM EC2 Networking EKS)
• Kubernetes Administration and Production Support
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD Tools (GitHub Actions Jenkins)
• Monitoring & Observability (Datadog Prometheus Grafana SignalFx Nagios or similar)
• Incident Management Root Cause Analysis and Production Support
• Security Operations including vulnerability remediation access management and secrets rotation
• Experience working in enterprise environments with formal change management processes

• DNS Proxy Edge Services and Networking Platforms
• Teleport Bastion Hosts Service Accounts and Access Management Solutions
• Container Security and Supply Chain Security
• AMI/Image Lifecycle Management
• AI-enabled Operations Custom Agentic AI or Hyperscaler AI Services

• Lead a team of cloud/platform engineers.
• Drive operational governance service reliability and process standardization.
• Promote automation-first and reliability-first engineering practices.
• Partner with stakeholders across Cloud Infrastructure Security and Application teams.

• Experience in SRE Platform Engineering or Managed Services environments.
• Exposure to AI-powered operations observability or automation solutions.
• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications.

Required Experience:

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