Application Modernization & Cloud Engineering Lead

Role Overview

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for application modernization, cloud engineering, and cloud operations; drive execution, delivery commitments, and talent development
• Own modernization assessments for monolithic Java applications and define phased migration strategies to AWS (rehost/replatform/refactor), including sequencing, risk management, and dependency planning
• Lead decommission of monolithic applications into microservices aligned to business domains and bounded contexts; guide API design, service contracts, and integration standards
• Provide cloud platform governance, standards, procedures, and automated workflows, focusing on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and auditability
• Collaborate across CTO, Engineering, Security, and Business stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and communicate modernization and cloud transformation progress
• Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring/observability, emergency response, capacity planning, setting and maintaining SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets, and creating dashboards
• Manage site stability, performance, reliability, and maintain uptime for production environments; partner with stakeholders to ensure production readiness and runbooks
• Develop and mature a multi-environment observability stack (metrics/logs/traces) and extend it to predict capacity needs based on usage patterns
• Strive for automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity (self-service pipelines, standardized templates, reusable patterns)
• Lead root cause analysis for complex production incidents in distributed Java/microservices environments and drive corrective/preventive actions
• Hands-on expertise with design, deploying and troubleshooting cloud services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience
• 10–12 years of experience in software engineering / cloud engineering / platform engineering with demonstrated delivery of enterprise modernization initiatives
• 3+ years in team leadership responsibilities (people management and/or delivery leadership), including coaching/mentoring engineers and driving outcomes in Agile delivery models
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java (e.g., Spring / Spring Boot) and building/operating production services
• Proven hands-on experience migrating applications to AWS, including modernization/refactoring where required
• Demonstrated experience breaking monolithic applications into microservices, including service boundaries, data separation strategies, and service-to-service communication approaches
• Strong experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS) and cloud-native deployment practices
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD platforms and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub Actions; Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Experience with observability tools/practices (metrics, logs, traces) and operational best practices for production environments
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals (IAM/RBAC, network controls, encryption) and modern authentication/authorization concepts (OAuth2/OIDC)
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence executives and technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, and deliver roadmaps that meet business and regulatory needs.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• Terraform

Benefits

• best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being
• career advancement and upskilling opportunities