Lead DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead to drive the strategy, architecture, and evolution of our cloud-native platform. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for building scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver software quickly and safely. The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, Observability, and Software Engineering. This role requires a strong Java software engineering background, combined with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and platform operations. We are looking for a leader who understands both application development and platform engineering, and who can effectively bridge the gap between software teams and infrastructure teams. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technical leader capable of defining engineering standards, mentoring teams, making architectural decisions, and driving automation and platform modernization across the organization. Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement Define and execute the organization's Platform Engineering strategy. Establish self-service infrastructure capabilities. Create reusable platform templates, golden paths, and engineering standards. Improve developer productivity through automation and platform tooling. Drive engineering excellence through standardization and governance. Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Design and operate enterprise-scale AWS environments. Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives. Define infrastructure standards and cloud operating models. Core AWS Services EKS ECS EC2 S3 EBS EFS IAM KMS Secrets Manager Route53 VPC SNS SQS EventBridge CloudWatch X-Ray Kubernetes Platform Leadership Lead Kubernetes platform architecture and operations. Define multi-cluster deployment strategies. Establish workload governance and cluster security policies. Design scalable and resilient container platforms. Implement zero-downtime deployment practices. Optimize platform cost and performance. Kubernetes Ecosystem Kubernetes (EKS and self-managed) Helm NGINX Ingress AWS Load Balancer Controller Rancher DevOps, CI/CD & GitOps Define and standardize modern software delivery practices. Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines. Drive GitOps adoption across engineering teams. Establish deployment, rollback, and release management standards. Improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency. Technologies Bamboo ArgoCD GitHub Actions GitLab CI Artifactory Infrastructure as Code Lead Infrastructure as Code practices across the organization. Build reusable Terraform modules and platform blueprints. Promote policy-as-code and governance automation. Implement drift detection and infrastructure compliance controls. Establish IaC development lifecycle and quality standards. Technologies Terraform AWS CDK