Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer(Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering)

Job Description: Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer(Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering)

Location: Dallas, TX

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.

PREFERRED 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.