Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

This role will focus on building scalable self-service platforms, automating cloud operations, and improving the developer experience across a large engineering organization. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to design cloud-native solutions, reduce operational friction, and establish secure, reliable infrastructure patterns that can be leveraged company-wide. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on platform strategy, architecture, and cloud adoption initiatives while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and support cloud-native, microservices-based architectures
• Build scalable self-service platforms and automation for cloud operations
• Improve developer experience and productivity through platform capabilities
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Establish secure, reliable infrastructure patterns for company-wide use
• Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence across the organization
• Lead architecture and solution design for greenfield and brownfield initiatives
• Implement observability, monitoring, resiliency, and operational best practices

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering experience in large-scale distributed environments
• 3+ years of experience developing and operating production services using Python, Java, or similar programming languages
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, APIs, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, including Terraform
• Experience building self-service automation and platform capabilities
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions

Qualifications

• Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, or similar DevOps tooling
• Experience building internal developer platforms and cloud automation frameworks
• Experience implementing secrets management and secure cloud deployment practices
• Familiarity with React, FastAPI, or similar modern application frameworks
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification or comparable cloud certification
• Passion for mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices