AWS Platform Engineering – Assistant Vice President (AVP)

What You Will Be Responsible For Platform Engineering & Cloud Enablement Lead and enable application onboarding to AWS, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and Terraform), security controls, and operational best practices. Partner with application teams to design, architect, and implement scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions. Drive adoption of platform engineering capabilities that simplify cloud onboarding, improve developer experience, and accelerate software delivery. Support modernization initiatives by migrating on-premises applications to AWS and integrating vendor-hosted applications and services with enterprise cloud platforms. Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for AWS platform engineering, providing guidance on cloud-native architectures, deployment strategies, automation, networking, security, and operational excellence. CI/CD & Automation Provide operational support for enterprise CI/CD platforms, ensuring high availability, stability, and reliability of deployment pipelines and automation services. Manage and maintain CI/CD platforms, including pipeline configurations, build agents/runners, artifact repositories, deployment frameworks, and release automation services. Troubleshoot complex build, deployment, and integration issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures that improve platform resilience and reliability. Continuously optimize software delivery processes through automation, self-service capabilities, and reusable platform components. Observability & Operational Excellence Monitor application health, platform performance, and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact application teams. Establish and promote SRE-inspired operational practices including reliability metrics, service health monitoring, incident management, and post-incident reviews. AI & Innovation Evaluate and adopt emerging AI-assisted engineering capabilities to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency. Drive the adoption of Agentic AI solutions for platform operations, application onboarding, troubleshooting, documentation generation, and workflow automation. Identify opportunities to leverage AI-driven observability, incident analysis, and operational automation across the software development lifecycle. Leadership & Collaboration Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous learning, and operational excellence. Lead small project teams and coordinate the delivery of platform initiatives across globally distributed engineering organizations. Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, security, networking, cloud, and platform engineering teams to streamline software delivery and improve operational efficiency. Create and maintain technical documentation, knowledge articles, architecture patterns, and training materials while conducting knowledge-sharing sessions to improve engineering effectiveness and platform adoption.

Platform Mindset  – Building scalable, reusable self-service platforms that empower application teams. Customer Enablement  – Passion for helping development teams succeed in the cloud. Technical Leadership  – Ability to influence architecture decisions and guide engineering teams. Ownership & Accountability  – Driving initiatives from concept through execution and support. Continuous Improvement  – Relentless focus on automation, efficiency, reliability, and developer experience. Collaboration  – Working effectively across global teams while building strong partnerships. Innovation  – Leveraging cloud-native technologies, observability, and AI-driven engineering practices to deliver business value. Education & Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline. 7+