Technology leadership:
- Define and evolve cloud architecture standards, reference designs, and golden paths for AWS (and minimal GCP/Azure)
- Own shared AWS infrastructure (e.g., networking, identity, CI/CD foundations, observability, cost controls, security guardrails)
- Drive IaC-first delivery (Terraform/CDK), automation, and platform reliability (SLOs, incident patterns)
- Lead platform-wide initiatives: multi-account strategy, landing zones, IAM strategy, data access patterns, secret management, container orchestration, serverless foundations
- Ensure regulatory and security compliance (e.g., data protection, auditability, least privilege)
- Lead and develop engineers: coaching, feedback, growth plans, hiring and onboarding
- Set clear goals, prioritize work, and run effective rituals (planning, reviews, incident retros)
- Foster a culture of transparency, ownership, and learning
- Collaborate with dev teams to co-design infrastructure patterns; enable them to operate their stacks
- Create documentation, training, and internal tooling for self-service adoption
- Act as a trusted advisor to product and security stakeholders on cloud topics
- Promote cross-selling of platform capabilities across business units
- Own platform KPIs: reliability (SLOs), security posture, cost efficiency, developer enablement metrics
- Run incident management and postmortems for shared services
- Maintain cloud budgets, tagging/FinOps practices, and cost visibility
- Manage vendor relations and cloud accounts; drive consolidation where useful