AWS Cloud Engineering Team Lead

Kyndryl; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 124,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

Kyndryl Inc. in Toronto is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer Team Lead for a hybrid, contract role with a major financial sector client.

The position focuses on operations, incident and escalation management, FinOps practices, and people leadership to deliver a consistently high-quality user experience. Responsibilities include leading Cloud Platform and Product Components, peer reviewing AWS code, managing security and cost governance, and coordinating with stakeholders to drive operational

Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years of AWS infra engineering with 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

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud Operations team activities and escalation support.
• Manage incident and escalation processes.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure a high-quality user experience.
• Implement cloud FinOps practices and cost governance.
• Ensure cloud security and cost controls.
• Peer review code for AWS tech stack accuracy and best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

Stakeholder engagement

People leadership

Cloud FinOps

Tools

Terraform

AWS networking

IAM

EKS

S3

VPC

Job description

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

Duration: Till March 31, 2026 (potential of extensions - long term project)

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*