Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead

Job description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead to drive the design, scalability, and reliability of the cloud platform at Conversive (SMS Magic). This role blends hands-on cloud engineering expertise with DevOps practices and SRE principles, enabling teams to build and ship products faster, safer, and more efficiently.

You will be responsible for building and operating highly available, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, while leading platform-level decisions around automation, reliability, performance, and scalability. This role requires both deep technical expertise and leadership capabilities to guide infrastructure strategy and execution.

What will qualify you for this role?:

• Strong experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
• Deep expertise in AWS services across compute, storage, networking, and monitoring
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS)
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
• Knowledge of distributed systems and high-availability architecture patterns
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and product teams
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills

Desired Skills:

• Experience managing large-scale SaaS platforms or distributed systems
• Exposure to multi-region or multi-cloud architectures
• Experience with cloud security practices, compliance frameworks, and governance models
• Familiarity with databases, caching, and messaging systems (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Redshift, etc.)
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect
• Ability to drive developer productivity through automation and internal tooling

Education Qualification:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure
• Own the availability, reliability, and performance of production systems
• Drive infrastructure architecture decisions aligned with business and engineering goals
• Manage cloud environments across development, staging, and production
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Implement cloud security best practices including IAM, network segmentation, and secrets management
• Ensure infrastructure complies with security and regulatory standards
• Monitor and optimize cloud cost, utilization, and performance efficiency
• Implement autoscaling strategies and resource optimization techniques
• Improve developer productivity by building automation tools and internal platforms
• Provide visibility into infrastructure usage, performance, and cost trends
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and reliable system design

Skills

AWS, CloudFormation, Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform