AWS Platform Compute Services Lead Engineer – Vice President

AWS Platform Compute Services Lead Engineer – Vice President

Requirements

• Developers’ mindset with ability to drive proof of concepts independently in the cloud infrastructure space.
• Deep understanding of AWS Compute Services such as Virtual Machines, EKS, ECS, AWS Serverless and its supporting services as core competency.
• Experience in handling Operating System lifecycle: Base images, Image Hardening, OS Security, Disk Management, Backups, etc.
• Have good technical understanding of how container-based enterprise grade workloads can be rolled out with EKS/ECS with governance and standards.
• Experience handling Enterprise level infrastructure lifecycle including planning, monitoring, alerting, upgrades and patch management by automating end to end process.
• Experience in handling large scale infrastructure automation and upgrades to keep them up to date, preferably using Terraform.
• Good understanding of industry standard information security policies and how those can be implemented in the infrastructure environment.
• Expertise in a wide range of infrastructure related domains with a track record of large production grade service deployment and IT operations preferably in financial services or a highly regulated industry.
• Leadership skills be able to inspire, persuade and influence courageously and persuade.
• Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate and navigate a complex organization as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.
• Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate team.

Responsibilities

• Enable AWS Compute Services such as Virtual Machines, EKS, ECS, AWS Serverless (lambda, Step Functions etc) for greenfield and brownfield enterprise workloads.
• Drive a team of engineers to establish an enterprise grade Compute Services in AWS by driving solutions and standards using Infrastructure as Code templates.
• Collaborate with peer teams to integrate AWS services to other shared services in the area of infrastructure, devsecops, common shared services, telemetry, security, networking and compliance to provide an end-to-end compute solution in cloud.
• Review and manage technical requirements and business functional requirements to establish new cloud infrastructure constructs based on best-in-class design and drive service enablement based on use case needs.
• Demonstrate a balanced and pragmatic approach to addressing complex infrastructure concepts and gain consensus of peers through use of blueprints and trade-off analyses.
• Be responsible for designing and building distributed, fault tolerant solutions that enable the business to securely run sensitive workloads within the cloud environment.
• Work with the team to design large scale enterprise integration patterns between cloud environments and our on-premises services.
• Will help in evaluating, re-architecting and migrate existing on-prem solutions to AWS.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, services and tools and develop technical domain roadmaps pertinent to public cloud capabilities.
• Support short-term and long-term public cloud service enablement planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline.
• 10 years overall IT industry experience in building multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises.
• Developing technical solutions for based on industry standards using AWS IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Experience in CICD, SDLC tools/Processes.
• Well versed with AWS foundational constructs around Compute, Networking, Security and Storage.
• Experience with AWS PaaS services.
• Strong understanding of multi-region cloud environments and global connectivity requirements.
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.
• Experience in designing and implementing secure containerized applications is preferable.
• Experience in designing, coding and deploying Terraform.
• Financial services or regulated industry experience a huge plus.