Lead Cloud Engineer & DevOps (AWS/GCP)

We’re hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer & DevOps for a leading enterprise organization based in New York, NY .

This is a technical leadership role responsible for leading Cloud & DevOps initiatives across AWS and GCP. You’ll lead cloud engineers, manage offshore vendor relationships, define cloud standards, oversee infrastructure, security, cost optimization, and drive operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Cloud/DevOps engineers
• Manage offshore engineering teams and vendor relationships
• Own AWS governance, IAM, security, and cost optimization
• Support and expand GCP environments
• Define Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform
• Oversee GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• Drive cloud security, reliability, monitoring, and incident management
• Collaborate with engineering and technology leadership

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps experience
• 2+ years leading engineering teams, contractors, or offshore vendors
• Strong AWS expertise (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, Lambda, Organizations, Secrets Manager)
• Experience with GCP
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions / CI/CD
• Docker (Kubernetes/GKE is a plus)
• Linux administration
• Python and/or Bash
• Cloud networking, IAM, security, governance, and cost optimization
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Preferred

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Google Professional Cloud Engineer

Employment Details

📍 Location: Wall Street, New York, NY

Engagement: Long-term Contract, C2C available