AWS Cloud Lead

Position : AWS Cloud Lead


Location : Waukegan, IL (Onsite)

Role Overview


Lead the Cloud Operations and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions on AWS. Work closely with engineering, Enterprise Architects, business, and operations teams to define cloud architecture, drive modernization, and ensure best-in-class cloud practices, including but not limited to- Operations excellence, CIS benchmarks, Cloud Guardrails, security, Automations, and good understanding for future Automation/ AgenticAI, GenAI.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure AWS solutions (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, Control Tower,).
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and infrastructure design.
• Ensure cloud security, IAM governance, compliance, and cost optimization (FinOps).
• Drive DevOps practices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and automation.
• Set up monitoring & observability (CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK).
• Collaborate with stakeholders and provide architectural guidance.
• Join and support the P1/P2 MIM bridge and lead end to end.
• Work on RCA, vendor cases to build RCA.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Deep experience with Terraform/CloudFormation, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, containers and AWS CLI
• Strong understanding of VPC architecture, networking, and security best practices.
• Expertise with CI/CD, Git, automation, and cloud-native design patterns.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent in Monthly, Weekly status, pattern, reports to business.

Preferred

• AWS Professional certification.
• Knowledge of multi-cloud (Azure/GCP).
• Experience with AWS EKS, AWS CLI, Cloud Formation & Automations use cases
• MLOps, GenAI, Agentic AI (nice to have).