AWS Platform Lead

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Platform Support Lead to oversee cloud platform operations, production support, incident management, and infrastructure reliability across AWS environments. The ideal candidate will lead a team of support engineers, drive operational excellence, ensure platform stability and security, and act as the primary escalation point for critical incidents.

This role requires strong expertise in AWS cloud services, infrastructure operations, automation, monitoring, and ITIL-based service management processes.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of AWS Platform Support Engineers.
• Provide technical guidance for cloud operations, support activities, and platform improvements.
• Define support standards, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex production issues.

Platform Operations & Support

• Manage and support AWS infrastructure across multiple environments.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability of cloud platforms.
• Oversee incident, problem, change, and release management activities.
• Drive major incident management and coordinate recovery efforts.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions.

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Manage and support AWS services including:

• EC2
• VPC
• IAM
• S3
• RDS
• Lambda
• EKS / ECS
• Route 53
• CloudWatch
• ELB / ALB
• SNS / SQS
• Auto Scaling

Monitoring & Reliability

• Establish proactive monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• Define and track platform SLAs, KPIs, and operational metrics.
• Analyze trends and recommend improvements for platform stability.
• Ensure capacity planning and performance optimization.

Automation & DevOps

• Drive automation of operational activities using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Support CI/CD processes and release deployments.
• Implement operational automation using:
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Python
• Shell Scripting

Security & Compliance

• Ensure cloud environments adhere to security policies and compliance requirements.
• Review IAM configurations, access controls, and overall security posture.
• Collaborate with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and audit findings.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with application, DevOps, security, network, and business teams.
• Provide regular operational reports and service review updates.
• Lead customer and stakeholder communications during major incidents and service reviews.

Required Technical Skills

AWS Services

• EC2
• S3
• VPC
• IAM
• RDS
• Lambda
• Route 53
• ELB / ALB / NLB
• CloudWatch
• CloudTrail
• Auto Scaling
• SNS / SQS
• EKS / ECS

Operating Systems

• Linux (RHEL, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu)
• Windows Server

Monitoring & Observability Tools

• CloudWatch
• Splunk
• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Ansible

DevOps Tools

• Jenkins
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Azure DevOps

Scripting & Automation

• Python
• Shell Scripting
• PowerShell

Database Technologies

• Amazon RDS
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• DynamoDB

Leadership Responsibilities

• Manage and coach a team of cloud support engineers.
• Conduct performance reviews and development planning.
• Drive shift governance and support coverage planning.
• Ensure adherence to operational SLAs and OLAs.
• Lead major incident bridges and stakeholder communications.
• Drive continuous service improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of IT infrastructure and production support experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud operations experience.
• Experience leading platform support teams in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience working within ITIL-based service management environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• ITIL Foundation Certification

Key Competencies

• AWS Cloud Operations Leadership
• Production Support Management
• Incident & Problem Management
• Platform Reliability Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Team Leadership & Mentoring
• Stakeholder Management
• Automation & Continuous Improvement
• Cloud Security & Governance
• Performance Optimization

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and container platforms.
• Exposure to FinOps and AWS cost optimization practices.
• Multi-cloud experience (Azure and/or GCP).
• Knowledge of SRE practices and observability frameworks.
• Experience supporting global 24x7 operations.

We offer:

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range Minimum: $114,000 per year 

Pay Range Maximum: $198,000 per year

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to [email protected] for investigation.

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.