AWS Cloud Engineering Team Lead

Position: AWS Cloud Engineering Team Lead (Cloud Operations)

Client: Financial Sector

Location: Toronto (Hybrid) - 3 days onsite per week

Duration: Six Months (Potential for extension)

Language: English

Background

Our financial sector client requires the services of an AWS Cloud Engineer Team Lead to support the Cloud Platform and Product Components

This is an operations-focused leadership role centered on operational efficiency, incident and escalation management, stakeholder engagement, cloud FinOps practices, and people leadership to deliver a consistently high-quality user experience

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure and AWS Cloud Engineering
• Support Cloud Platform and Product Components
• Ability to lead troubleshooting, issue investigation, and resolution
• Technical strength to lead Cloud Operations team activities and member,s and escalation support.
• Strong knowledge of Service Management and ITSM processes
• Regularly Peer Review code (limited to AWS Tech Stack) for accuracy and best practices, operational stability
• Ensure strong cloud security and cost management controls are maintained

Skills

• 10+ years of infrastructure experience
• 5+ years of experience on engineering AWS infra with relevant services: IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, KMS, VPC, Cognito, Config, SCP, CloudTrail, VPC Endpoint, Quick Suite.
• Demonstrated expertise using Terraform to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge on AWS networking services such as Transit Gateway, Route 53, firewall
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional level certification - Nice to Have
• Knowledge Across Cloud Security Practices and Tools, Architecture, FinOps and Cost Governance
• Lead continued improvement efforts for operational efficiency and improvement

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• *Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a fulltime employment role with Kyndryl Canada*