Technical Lead – Cloud Platform (AWS) Engineering

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Position: Technical Lead – Cloud Platform (AWS) Engineering

Location : Hinjewadi Pune

Experience : 8 Years

Budget : 27-30 LPA

Client: Hexaware

Role: Permanent with client

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days Office)

Interview Mode: 2 rounds Virtual Interview

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners / 15-20 Days Notice period

Mandatory Skills : AWS Kubernetes Rest API GitOps Team Lead Exp

Relevant in AWS should be 6 yrs at least along with Team handling.

I. Job Summary:

The Technical Lead – Cloud Platform Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing cloud-native applications and platform solutions for Consumer and SMB customers. This role provides technical leadership across Kubernetes-based platforms AWS cloud environments and modern DevOps ecosystems. The incumbent will drive architectural decisions oversee solution delivery mentor platform engineers and ensure production-ready scalable and commercially effective cloud solutions aligned with business objectives and governance standards.

II. Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead technical design and implementation of cloud-native applications and platform solutions.
• Mentor and guide platform engineers on architecture coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Drive long-term technical strategy architecture planning and roadmap execution.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies and recommend platform enhancements.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery from design through deployment and production support.
• Ensure solutions are scalable secure reliable and production-ready.
• Enforce GitOps CI/CD best practices and automation-first engineering culture.
• Conduct architecture reviews code reviews and quality governance.
• Identify technical risks early and implement mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with business goals.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC processes across Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Promote continuous improvement in engineering practices tooling and observability.

III. Years of Experience:

• 8 years of experience in Cloud Engineering Platform Engineering or Cloud-Native Application Development.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring engineering teams.

IV. Educational Qualification & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification or cloud certifications are highly regarded.

V. Skill Set Required:

Must Have:

• Strong expertise in Golang with focus on clean code modular design and scalable API development.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS) including deployment strategies networking scaling and cluster operations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and environment bootstrapping.
• Experience with Docker and containerization best practices.
• Expertise in service mesh and Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Istio Gateway API ExternalDNS Helm and Kustomize.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability using Prometheus Grafana and Alertmanager.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs with comprehensive unit integration and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of security and governance tools such as Kyverno or OPA.
• Strong troubleshooting capability across distributed systems networking and infrastructure layers.
• Solid understanding of SDLC processes across Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to Kubernetes Resource Models such as ACK KRO or Crossplane.
• Experience building Kubernetes Operators using Kubebuilder or Operator SDK.
• Experience evaluating and adopting emerging cloud-native technologies.

VI. Key Competencies:

• Strong leadership and mentoring capability.
• Strategic thinking with ability to translate business goals into technical roadmaps.
• High ownership and accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving and risk management capability.