Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer AWS and Kubernetes

The Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer will oversee public cloud engineering and operations, implementing the technical foundation for IaaS and PaaS services in public cloud providers and ensuring compliance with the Shared Responsibility Model. This role involves developing infrastructure and platform obsolescence plans, aligning implementation plans, and ensuring the effective integration of all IT services. Responsibilities include administering enterprise public cloud hosted IaaS and PaaS environments, performing upgrades, monitoring system performance, planning capacity, and managing costs to meet service level agreements. The engineer will engineer, orchestrate, automate, and oversee public cloud compute, storage, network, DNS, Public Key Infrastructure, database, security, and policy. They will implement the organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, collaborating with stakeholders to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions. The role also includes developing specifications for new cloud-based products and services with product managers and engineers, driving the rollout of cloud management platforms, and advising executives on functional strategies. This position will also serve as a backup to the Lead Infrastructure Engineer, potentially taking ownership of on-premises technologies.