The Role
Lead cloud infrastructure and platform engineering strategy across Azure and AWS. Manage and mentor DevOps engineers, oversee enterprise cloud migrations, govern Terraform and infrastructure as code, establish landing zones and security guardrails, standardize CI/CD and GitOps practices, and improve monitoring, reliability, cost, and resilience. Partner with application teams, security, product, leadership, and global stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and governed cloud platforms.
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Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering| July 2026
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive cloud infrastructure strategy, platform engineering, and large-scale migration programs across Azure and AWS environments. This role leads a team of senior engineers, sets technical direction for infrastructure automation, and partners with application teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and governed cloud platforms.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and mentor a team of senior and mid-level DevOps engineers across cloud migration and platform engineering workstreams.
- Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure automation, CI/CD maturity, and platform engineering practices.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews; set engineering standards, coding conventions, and IaC patterns.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with application, security, and product teams.
- Serve as the escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and migration blockers.
Cloud Migration (Azure & AWS)
- Plan, architect, and oversee end-to-end cloud migrations across Azure and AWS environments.
- Lead Tenant-to-Tenant migrations covering Azure AD, subscriptions, and workloads at enterprise scale.
- Define migration playbooks for lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecture patterns.
- Establish quality gates, rollback procedures, and post-migration stabilization frameworks.
- Optimize and standardize multi-cloud environments for cost, performance, and resilience.
Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
- Architect and govern enterprise-wide Terraform module libraries and IaC standards.
- Lead Terraform Enterprise (TFE) adoption, workspace governance, and platform migrations.
- Drive consistency in state management, module versioning, and pipeline integration.
- Review and approve IaC changes for security, compliance, and architectural alignment.
Platform Engineering & Governance
- Define platform engineering strategy: landing zones, multi-subscription/account architectures, and self-service provisioning.
- Implement guardrails and governance models using Azure Policy and AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs).
- Enforce security policies covering RBAC, IAM, and network controls.
- Enable platform teams to build and consume self-service infrastructure capabilities.
DevOps & CI/CD
- Design and govern CI/CD pipeline standards for application and infrastructure delivery.
- Champion GitOps principles for environment pipelines and deployment automation.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and reliability practices across cloud workloads.
- Identify and eliminate toil through automation and platform improvements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery
- Coordinate with senior leadership, application owners, and migration program managers on delivery timelines and risks.
- Produce and present architecture decisions, migration status updates, and platform roadmaps.
- Partner with onshore teams and client stakeholders across global time zones.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Skill AreaDetailsLevelPREFERRED SKILLS
- Terraform Enterprise (TFE) administration and migration initiatives.
- Multi-tenant architecture transformations at enterprise scale.
- Cloud FinOps and cost optimization practices.
- Experience with internal developer platforms such as Coder or Backstage.
- Kubernetes platform engineering: EKS, AKS, namespace governance, and policy enforcement.
- AWS or Azure professional-level certifications.
LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS
This is a lead role. Beyond technical execution, the ideal candidate drives team performance, raises the engineering bar, and connects infrastructure decisions to business outcomes.
- Builds and develops high-performing engineering teams; invests in career growth of direct reports.
- Communicates complex technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Operates with a bias toward action: ships working solutions before perfect ones.
- Holds technical quality standards without creating blockers for delivery.
- Proactively surfaces risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
Skills Required
- Advanced Azure experience
- Advanced AWS experience
- Advanced tenant-to-tenant, subscription, and workload migration experience
- Advanced Terraform and Terraform Enterprise experience
- Advanced CI/CD pipelines, Git, automation, and GitOps experience
- Advanced platform engineering, landing zones, Azure Policy, AWS Service Control Policies, and governance models
- Proficient Docker and Kubernetes experience, including EKS or AKS
- Proficient Python and Bash scripting
- Proficient monitoring experience with logs, metrics, alerting, CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor
- Team lead or technical lead experience with at least three direct reports
- Terraform Enterprise administration and migration initiative experience
- Multi-tenant architecture transformation experience at enterprise scale
- Cloud FinOps and cost optimization experience
- Experience with internal developer platforms such as Coder or Backstage
- Kubernetes platform engineering experience, including namespace governance and policy enforcement
- AWS or Azure professional-level certification
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The Company
What We Do
Anblicks is a Cloud Data Analytics Company based out of Dallas, TX, with offices in USA, India, and Australia. Since 2004, Anblicks has been helping customers by bringing value to their data and implementing modern data architecture and advanced analytics solutions in the cloud.
