AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Technical Strategy
  • Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS solutions
  • Define reference architectures, platform patterns, and architecture modernization roadmaps
  • Lead multi account strategy, landing zone design, IAM governance, and network architecture
  • Partner with Product, Platform, and Development leaders to align cloud strategy with business priorities
• Platform Engineering & Implementation
  • Build and maintain platform components including CI/CD pipelines, shared services, observability stack, and deployment frameworks
  • Implement infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK with strong GitOps discipline
  • Drive automation across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operational workflows
  • Ensure platform consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments
• Platform Ownership: SLAs, Reliability, DR, Security
  • Own platform SLAs, uptime targets, and performance baselines
  • Ensure adherence through proactive engineering
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post mortem processes
  • Drive continuous reliability improvements
  • Own Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, including RTO/RPO definitions, failover design, and DR testing cadence
  • Maintain platform security posture: IAM, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, compliance controls
  • Implement FinOps practices and continuously optimize cloud spend
• AWS Administration & Operations
  • Manage day to day AWS administration including IAM, VPC, routing, backups, patching, and resource governance
  • Maintain monitoring, logging, and observability systems (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Ensure operational readiness for new services, features, and platform capabilities
  • Oversee environment lifecycle management across dev, staging, and production
• Leadership of AWS Engineering Team
  • Lead, mentor, and develop senior AWS engineers
  • Provide technical direction, required coaching, and guidance
  • Set engineering standards for IaC, CI/CD, security, automation, and documentation
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering
• Deep expertise in AWS core services, VPC design, IAM, security, and multi account strategy
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
• Experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, and event driven architectures
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, DevOps pipelines, and automation
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Experience owning SLAs, DR, incident response, and operational reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
• Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or golden paths
• Experience with FinOps, cost governance, and cloud budget management
• Experience with security frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, NIST)

Work Location

In person - Parsippany, NJ