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This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to build secure, scalable, and developer-centric cloud platforms.\nAs a senior technical leader, you will define platform architecture, establish engineering standards, and enable product teams through a world-class Internal Developer Platform (IDP). You will work across teams to improve developer experience, system reliability, security posture, and cloud networking foundations while driving innovation in cloud-native and AI-enabled engineering practices.\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform Architecture & Strategy\nDefine and evolve the target architecture for cloud-native platforms on AWS\nArchitect and govern AWS network topology, including multi-account and multi-region designs\nDesign scalable, resilient systems leveraging Kubernetes, serverless, and event-driven architectures\nEstablish and maintain platform standards, patterns, and “golden paths” for engineering teams\nDrive adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) across the organization\nCloud Networking & Infrastructure\nDesign and implement secure, scalable AWS network architectures (VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT, load balancing)\nDefine connectivity patterns including Transit Gateway, API gateway, VPC peering, and PrivateLink\nArchitect hybrid connectivity solutions 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on schema design, data lifecycle management, and migration strategies\nTechnical Leadership\nAct as a technical authority across platform, infrastructure, and networking domains\nLead complex cross-team initiatives and influence architectural decisions at an organizational level\nMentor senior engineers and guide teams on platform engineering, cloud architecture, and DevSecOps best practices\nProvide architectural leadership on complex networking challenges, including cross-region and hybrid cloud designs\nDeveloper Experience & Enablement\nBuild and enhance self-service capabilities, reusable templates, and automation tooling\nImprove developer productivity through streamlined workflows, CI/CD, and platform abstractions\nPartner with engineering teams to reduce friction and accelerate delivery\nCloud Infrastructure & Automation\nArchitect and manage AWS environments (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, VPC, etc.)\nLead Infrastructure as Code practices (Terraform preferred) for scalable and consistent environments\nDesign and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing and security controls\nSecurity & Governance\nDefine and enforce security best practices across platform, application, and network layers\nImplement DevSecOps practices, including automated security testing and compliance controls\nDrive adoption of zero-trust and identity-first security models\nEnsure governance across IAM, networking, encryption, and secrets management\nObservability & Reliability\nEstablish observability standards including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting\nDefine and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets\nDrive reliability engineering practices and continuous improvement of incident response\nCost & Performance Optimization\nPromote FinOps practices and cost-aware architecture design\nOptimize infrastructure usage, network efficiency, and system performance\nInnovation & Emerging Technology\nEvaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-native development 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